Computer Glitches Frustrating Voters
By Alan Cooperman and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 7, 2006; 6:52 PM
Brian Mason, spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party, said the computers crashed and shut down the poll book, an electronic database of registered voters. Initially, voters were offered provisional ballots. Then the ballots ran out.
"Hundreds of voters were not allowed to vote this morning because of the computer problems," Mason said.
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In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford (R), seeking a second term, initially was turned away from his polling site because he had not brought proper identification. His campaign manager, Jason Miller, said the governor arrived at his voting location, on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, shortly before 10 a.m. with his driver's license but not his voter registration card. His license, Miller said, was not acceptable because it contained the address for the governor's mansion, not his home address.---------------------------------------------------
A judge ordered polling places to remain open late tonight in all 75 precincts of Indiana's Delaware County, northeast of Indianapolis, because the electronic voting machines there were programmed for the wrong ballot, a spokesman for the Indiana secretary of state's office said.
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In Camden County, N.J., about 30 out of 700 voting machines were reported out of order.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110700876.htmlArizona / West
Computer glitch halts online voter sign-up
By Paul Davenport
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.08.2008
PHOENIX — A national motor-vehicle computer network malfunctioned Monday, preventing Arizona's online voter-registration system from being used on the last day to register to vote in the state's presidential primary.
Midnight Monday was the deadline for registering for Arizona's Feb. 5 primary.
It wasn't known how many Arizonans were unable to use the online registration system because of the unexplained problem with the national network. But more than 5,000 either registered or changed their registrations over the weekend, a state election official said.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/219552.php
Computer glitch turns thousands away at Ohio BMV offices
Updated at 7:41 a.m.
COLUMBUS, O. (AP) – A computer glitch forced the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to turn away thousands of people seeking to get a driver's license or a state identification card.Monday's glitch was part of a nationwide problem with a computer server at the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which acts as a portal through which all states must access federal databases before ID cards or licenses can be issued.
During the Monday slowdown, BMV agencies across Ohio issued only 35 driver's licenses and state identification cards. On a normal Monday, the state processes 10,000.
BMV spokeswoman Julie Ehrhart says Ohio residents should call ahead this week to make sure the system is working.
http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=77760&r=12Latest News - Updated @ 3:44 P.m.
Computer glitch jeopardizes citizen initiatives
Are skewing petition signature counts to point it may keep them off Nov. ballots
By Paige St. John
Florida Capital Bureau
Originally posted on January 09, 2008
TALLAHASSEE — A glitch lurking within Florida’s new $23 million computer voter system is skewing the count of petition signatures — some by so much the error threatens to keep some of them from the November ballot.
By state law, organizations running citizen initiatives to change the state constitution have until Feb. 1 to collect more than 611,009 voter signatures to put their issues on the ballot.
In November, state election officials privately told county election supervisors the petition signature counts Florida was reporting — and that initiative campaigns rely on to keep track of where they are in the process — were wrong.--------------------------------------------------------
Instead of figuring out the error, the Department of State has asked county election supervisors to go back through four years of records and resubmit their own tallies. They have until Jan. 11 to do so, and that number will then become the official figure from which counting resumes.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS0107/80109051
Election workers scrambling to fix absentee ballots
Last updated on: 1/11/2008 6:36:47 PM by Cara Sapida
LEE COUNTY: A computer glitch sent more than 3000 absentee ballots out to Lee County voters with the wrong name. Now workers at the Lee County Supervisor of Elections office are working overtime to fix the error and make sure every vote counts.http://www.nbc-2.com/Articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=16850&z=3&p=
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