If you think that was a clean election.... [View All]

[garybeck]

just spend a few minutes in the EIRS database. here are just a few samples, these happen to be from Maryland, but there are LOTS more

"two problems at polling place: (1) polling place has 15 machines, but only 4 are working; (2) people had to vote multiple times ("5 times") because "the cards weren't working". Caller mentioned that this is a predominantly African-American neighborhood.

"For one voter, his confirmation page did not reflect his actual choices. He noticed this and changed it, but there may be other machines that this is happening on.

"1. Poll opened late 2. She was first in line - gave voter registration call - was asked whether she is democrat or republican - 3. Poll worker takes card and puts in scanner around neck and pushes in numbers - puts in machine kicks it out - doesn't work - puts back in scanner - card deleted next people - not asked party, didn't put card in scanner - took 40 minutes to vote 4. They required cell phone to be off - will mess up machines -

"She was 21st in line at the 7 a.m. opening. Everyone was given their electronic cards. When tried to vote, all machines went down but card was already processed. Required people to fill out paper (provisional) ballots. Then 3 machines became available. She was told to go vote on the machine but they had already taken back the cards. She was sent back and forth between the "machine" judges and the "cards" judges. Finally she just voted by provisional ballot

"Parkside Clubhouse North at 10522 Montrose Ave, Machine TS7 is not working properly. The voter brought the problem to the attention of election judge Ben Houghton, who called technical support but acted slowly and would not guarentee that the machine would be taken out of service. First Screen - First time she pushed the square to vote for Frost, she checked the screen and saw his opponent's name. She called the judge over and cleared it out, and a seond time, it did the same thing in his presence. When she tried a third time, she thinks it worked, but she couldn't verify it because the bottom part of the screen was cut off. Concerned enough that she went to Judge Van Houghton and she made an official complaint of voter fraud. She has a signed document from the election officials, signed and witnessed, saying that he saw it happen. She went back to see whether the machine had been taken away. After speaking to MoveOn.org's hotline Felt intimidated when she had the MoveO

"Machine twice showed he had picked the candidate above the one he picked. Democratic changed to republican. Had to clear votes, try again. After second try was able to vote correct.

"Machine #2 at this precinct records wrong candidate at summary page. Had to correct each candidate 3-4 times for it register correctly on summary screen. Concerned that others may not be checking summary screen and may inadvertently vote for wrong candidate.

" Voter tried to vote a democratic candidate and it incorrectly registered as Republican for three times in a row. She succeeded the fourth time. Also, the caller said that after providing her identification, the judge claimed not to have the caller's name in her pollbook. The caller produced her specimen ballot and the judge found her name.

"Machine flipped voter preferences for State initiatives 1 and 2. Voter noticed the error on the paper printout (which he could "barely make out") and notified a poll worker. She stated that this problem had occured "4 or 5 times" on two or more machines. He was on machine #7. He was given a provisional paper ballot on which to vote. He said that someone else used the machine right afterward. Poll workers are not pulling machines with known errors.

"Caller said that the poll worker said that they need a chip to download the information and none of the machines have the chip.

"machines broken, poll worker refused to give provisional ballots b/c "takes too long to count" and turned away 35 people, said to come back later.

Huge stack of more incidents like these:
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayUSReport.do