Touchscreen Switching, machine problems/long lines, dirty tricks in Virginia

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Virginia
5849 Polling Place Problem Albemarle Virginia No Machine problem: Webb's name cut off on screen.

5848 Polling Place Problem Alexandria Virginia No Machine problem: Webb's name was truncated on ballot, voter voted for Webb but after he finished the ballot, the screen said he had not chosen a candidate for gov. Helper concluded that "enter" key did not work. eventually succeeded in getting it to work.

5845 Polling Place Problem Fairfax Virginia No Machine problem: voter tried to change answer on ballot and machine wouldn’t let him.

5840 Polling Place Problem Pittsylvania Virginia Westover Recreation Center No machine problem (not clear what type of machine). first page, everything went to blanks, was told his vote counted but cannot verify.

3435 Polling Place Problem Orange Virginia Yes Vote for Democratic candidate for House of Representatives incorrectly recorded as vote for Republican candidate

1297 Polling Place Problem Henrico Virginia Pocahontas Middle School No Machine stuck on Republican candidate for senate - George Allen


Virginia
Long lines, machine problems, especially in minority precincts
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayStateCatSummary.do?catCol=placeProb&state=Virginia

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1. Dirty tricks, malfeasance(?) in Virginia

4686 Voter Intimidation Problem Arlington Virginia Democrat received email from RNC giving as his polling place an inaccurate location. Email is attached. Email, however, does contain a statement at the end: "The polling location provided above is correct information to the best of the RMC's knowledge; however, all voters are encouraged to reconfirm their polling location with their local election authority

372 Voter Intimidation Problem Accomack Virginia Democratic voters in Accomack and North Hampton Counties in VA are reporting receiving phone calls from purported election officials advisiing that they do not need to vote tomorrow or that they will be prosecuted if that show up at the polls. Mr. Moore is the Chairman of the Democratic Party in Accomack County VA. Information provided to me by Pat Farley a volunteer for the Jim Webb and ___ Kellum campaigns.

4451 Voter Intimidation Problem Polling Place Problem Fairfax Virginia No One machine appeared to be broken, and poll workers told people not to go to one particular machine because it was broken, but they seemed to steer African Americans to the broken machine.

etc.
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayUSReport.do
Virginia

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2. look like a dems? send him to #13

the all repug magic vote machine. Also votes to surrender your liberties one at a time, but cannot be verified.

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6. dirty tricks in 2 counties in Indiana

5053 Voter Intimidation Problem Monroe Indiana Call from J.P. at Marlon County Republic Hq. voting place - Marlon Elementary School - wrong voting place -don't forget to vote for Republican candidate (actual person)

4852 Voter Intimidation Problem Franklin Indiana Franklin Township Voter was told he could not vote b/c his driver's license was expired. 2d call from caller to provide polling place name.

4851 Voter Intimidation Problem Franklin Indiana Franklin Township Voter was told he could not vote b/c his driver's license was expired. 2d call from caller to provide polling place name.

4850 Voter Intimidation Problem Franklin Indiana Franklin Township Voter was told he could not vote b/c his driver's license was expired. 2d call from caller to provide polling place name.

3713 Voter Intimidation Problem Monroe Indiana Rae Stoll called on Ms. Perry's behalf. She told me that Republicans had called Ms. Perry and told her that her polling site had changed, which is not accurate. Ms. Perry votes in Clearcreek Precinct 3.

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7. Widespread dirty tricks by Repubs in New Mexico in minority areas

2883 Voter Intimidation Problem Santa Fe New Mexico Allan wanted our email address to forward an intimidating email he received from the Republican party in Santa Clara (possibly Santa Fe).

2872 Voter Intimidation Problem Bernalillo New Mexico reported that she had gotten unsolicited calls fr the republican party telling her incorrect information about where her polling place was. she believes that they are targetting people with hispanic surnames. she is attempting to get a restraining order against them.

2679 Voter Intimidation Problem Dona Ana New Mexico Received several phone calls (has one recorded on her machine) from the Gov. Richardson campaign (supposedly) telling her to vote, but mentioned a polling place that didn't exist (El Rancho Center). The voter knew that her polling place was actually Robertson High School but didn't realize it until later.

2599 Voter Intimidation Problem Bernalillo New Mexico voter received message on cell phone before election reminding her to vote and telling her that her voting place was on "mission avenue" in albuquerque, which is not correct. she knew that it was the wrong place and went to the right one. then she heard that it was a widespread problem in the area and wanted to report the incident. she is a democrat--relevant only b/c she heard that republicans were responsible.

1125 Voter Intimidation Problem Bernalillo New Mexico Fliers put on door with wrong polling place information

451 Voter Intimidation Problem Sandoval New Mexico KRQE TV located in Albuquerqe NM-before 9 am news- heard report on news that demos were complaining that republicans were calling democratic voters and giving them wrong address to vote- reps are denying it.

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12. Virginia Sec. of BOE says anti-democratic actions in election aimed at suppression were widespread

Threats of Incarceration, Changed Polling Locations, and Fliers to “Skip the Election.” Over the past several days, voters throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia have filed complaints of incidents aimed at suppressing voter turn out in heavily Democratic and African American neighborhoods.

Today, the Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen concluded that the incidents appear widespread and deliberate.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606S.shtml

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15. State Republican Party calls voters and tells them of incorrect polling place changes in New Mexico

Part of Major voter suppression efforts in minority areas
Is criminal activity relevant to the close Madrid/Wilson Congressional race in this county?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3730

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3. Touchscreen Switching, machine problems, long lines, minority disenfranchisement in Texas

4646 Polling Place Problem Bexar Texas Switched votes, took several tries before right vote showed on summary screen

3564 Polling Place Problem El Paso Texas Mr. Smith told us that he went to the polling place for "early voting" last week and repeatedly tried pressing for the Democratic candidate. Instead, it kept coming up as the Republican vote. He told the clerk this, who recommended that he keep pressing the button until his candidate comes up. On the 4th try, his Democratic candidate came up.

Polling Place Problem Brazoria Texas VFW Hall Democratic selections in computer kept disappearing when voter tried to review.

3047 Polling Place Problem Nueces Texas Non-party selections would erase and default to straight-ticket party selections during selection process. Voter began again several times, eventually recording her vote according to her choices, but the process took more than 15 minutes. Precinct 58, booth 1.

2418 Polling Place Problem El Paso Texas Voter selected democratic state senator (Shapley), but when he checked his vote at the end of the process, the republican candidate's (Margo) name appeared. According to the voter, this is a hotly contested race. Voter heard reports of similar incidents on the radio. Voter says that Rick Olivo (also running for office) had a similar complaint


Broken machines/Long Lines/Minority disenfranchisement
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayStateCatSummary.do?catCol=placeProb&state=Texas

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4. Touchscreen switching, compiler problems, long lines in Missouri

1794 Polling Place Problem Saint Louis Missouri Voter called to report that his wife went to vote earlier and the touchscreen machine was accessing the wrong voter's name when pressed.

1929 Polling Place Problem Saint Louis City Missouri Greater Fellowship Chruch Provisional ballots were mixed in with regular ballots. Voter does know why. She voted on the computer. Was not able to make changes to her ballot, because computer does not accept a changes. She does not know what kind of ballot she had and that angers her. Doesn't know if her vote counts or not.

1893 Polling Place Problem Saint Louis City Missouri MANN SCHOOL CALLER OBSERVED ANOTHER VOTER AT A TOUCH SCREEN MACHINE, WHO COMPLAINED TO A POLL WORKER THAT THE "MACHINE ATE HER BALLOT". CALLER DOES NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS MEANS, BUT CALLER DID OBSERVE POLL WORKER TRYING TO ASSIST VOTER. POLL WORKER REQUESTED ASSISTANCE FROM ANOTHER POLL WORKER, WHO INFORMED HIM TO RE-BOOT THE MACHINE. CALLER DOESN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS DONE. CALLER IS CONCERNED BECAUSE SHE NOTICED THAT THE OTHER VOTER WAS GROWING FRUSTRATED; ALSO, THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY TO KNOW WHETHER THE VOTE WAS PROPERLY TABULATED

1889 Polling Place Problem Jackson Missouri Bluford Library Yes put ballot in machine and the total count number did not change. it was 21 before I put it in and 21 after I put it in

1799 Polling Place Problem Jackson Missouri St. Theresa Academy Caller in the Brookside negihborhood idenfied the following problems with ballot scanners- 1) Caller was standing in line to vote at approx. 6:11 am and the scanner's counter stopped working at the number 7. The person in line in front of caller entered her ballot into scanner and the poll worker said "it stopped counting." The caller reports that the number display which shows how many ballots had been scanned stopped at the number 7. After a minute the poll worker said that "not to worry" and that the votes were being counted. The Caller had no way of knowing if the votes were in fact being counted because the display was showing no power. Caller noted that the poll workers opened the machine and exposed the ballots, then closed the machine. 2) Caller noted that the poll workers were not making an announcment about this problem and that the only reason he was aware was because he was 5 feet away when it hapened. Caller was not sure if his precinct was 6 or 23

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13. Straight-ticket Democratic votes were switched to Republicans in all the contested races

Calloway County. Kentucky, Vote-switching on the review screen of the Hart InterCivic eSlate. Straight-ticket Democratic votes were switched to Republicans in all the contested races

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1967&Itemid=26

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14. Touch Screen switching in Illinois and Missouri and Texas

Cook County. Il, Reports from voters. Vote-switching on Sequoia touch screens http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6775

St. Louis County, Mo. ES&S Touch Screen vote switching reported, http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3742#more-3742

& malfunctions cause long lines, http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6801


Tarrant County. Tx, Vote-switching in Governor race from Dem to Repub
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6815


Vote-switching on the ES&S iVotronics. Computer scientist's votes for one candidate were switched to another on the review screen in South Carolina

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1967&Itemid=26

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5. Touchscreen switching, machine problems, disorganization at polls reported in some areas of Californ

4519 Polling Place Problem Los Angeles California Voter reported that after marking her ballot and removing it from the voting machine, she noticed that the first line, which should have recorded her vote for governor, was blank. She tried to mark her vote several times without success. She eventually put her ballot through the computer which said she voted successfully. She reported the problem to poll workers. She also waited and spoke with another voter after he used the same voting machine and asked him to check his ballot to see if the machine recorded a vote for governor. He looked at his ballot and experienced the same problem. Other machines in the same polling place did not have this problem. Voter was concerned that other voters may have experienced the same problem. Voter was also concerned that her vote was not recorded correctly

4489 Polling Place Problem San Diego California Tierra Santa Baptist Church Diebold machine -- voter voted for a candidate and went back to review and found that the machine voted for a different candidate than she chose. Voter is sure that she checked the proper candidate. Voter alerted the polling place worker, who helped her correct the problem. Voter later contacted the county registrar of voters, who told her that they're refering problems to a Diebold official, who happened to be standing next to the county registrar.

4467 Polling Place Problem San Diego California Allen Residence when pressing the candidate selected, the machine would misregister the vote for the candidate immediately above the selected candidate

2958 Polling Place Problem San Joaquin California Voter reported the following: - She voted NO on proposition 84, then heard a noise, looked back at proposition 84, and saw her vote was now recorded as a YES. - This also happened when she tried to vote NO on proposition 86. She voted NO, and then saw the vote change to YES. - She reported that she made 4 attempts to make the NO votes register and is not sure if these NO votes were recorded properly.

http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayUSReport.do
California

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9. Lots more irregularities reported in most states-

http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp

http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayUSReport.do

voters reporting election irregularities to Election Protection hotlines

also Common Cause has one

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8. All of these accounts just add more credence to the TIA analysis:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2775205#2789467

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10. Well my worry

is that TIA's analysis subtracts credence from these accounts.

This is the stuff we want.

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11. Kick