Touch Screen Switching
Maryland
4255 Voter Intimidation Problem Other Problem Baltimore Maryland Rosedale Senior Center voter tried to vote for O'Malley, but Erhlich's name kept popping up. Wife says same thing happened to her.
4774 Polling Place Problem Anne Arundel Maryland Chapel Pressed screen for Cardin, came up Steel. Was able to correct before casting ballot.
4100 Polling Place Problem Baltimore Maryland Immaculate Heart of Mary 1. Problems with machine "changing" vote as he moved onto next issue. Judge kept coming over and "pushing buttons" trying to fix it. Voted as soon as the polls opened ; 15 people ahead of him. He voted in the primary with no problem. When he finally got to the review screen, about 1/3 were wrong; judge "played with it" again. Never "went inside" machine. Finally got everything right on the screen but he has no confidence that they got it right in the end. Took 1/2 hour to vote. 2. No privacy - when judge comes over, sees all his votes. He feels "violated."
3776 Polling Place Problem Howard Maryland Centennial Elementary school 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.
3774 Polling Place Problem Baltimore Maryland Randallstown High School When she voted with electronic machines. She tried to vote for Democrats and three times Republican candidates were picked. Poll workers advised her to press on it again to erase it, which she did and then it was corrected. Ultimately able to pick her candidates of choice, after she asked for assistance.
3615 Polling Place Problem Baltimore City Maryland Hartford Senior Center The summary page of the voter's vote showed she voted for candidates she did not vote for. A poll worker came over and helped her and fixed the summary page so it showed her correct vote. She is worried this might happen to others wthout them noticing.
3344 Polling Place Problem Baltimore Maryland ft. garrison elem. No voted dem. but erlich showed up on screen
2787 Polling Place Problem Montgomery Maryland Yes 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.
2302 Polling Place Problem Anne Arundel Maryland No Voter had problem with machine 6 at Waugh Chapel Elem. School. The machine would not record the candidate she wanted to select. It kept reverting to other candidate. Eventually she got it wok, but is concerned others may not have been able to get it to properly work
2264 Polling Place Problem Baltimore Maryland Fort Garrison Elementary School No 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.
1513 Polling Place Problem Anne Arundel Maryland Pasadena United Methodist Church Yes 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.
1488 Polling Place Problem Baltimore Maryland Samuel L. Banks School No 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.
4255 Voter Intimidation Problem Other Problem Baltimore Maryland Rosedale Senior Center Yes voter tried to vote for O'Malley, but Erhlich's name kept popping up. Wife says same thing happened to her.
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