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Problems Lead 8 States to Extend Some Voting Hours
By CHRISTINE HAUSER and JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: November 7, 2006
*In Illinois, hundreds of precincts were kept open an extra hour and a half because of late openings at polling places related to machine problems.
*In Indiana, confusion over where to vote as well as voting equipment problems led to extensions of at least 30 minutes, in three counties.
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina also extended some polling hours, according to a summary compiled by The Associated Press.
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Poll workers in Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding Allegheny County had trouble starting electronic machines today. Problems with printers and malfunctioning computers also cropped up, preventing at least some people from voting at 13 polling sites.
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Election officials in Delaware County, Ind., had said they would seek a court order to extend voting hours. Voters in 75 precincts were frustrated because the cards that activate machines apparently had been programmed incorrectly. A Circuit Court judge extended the voting until 8:40 p.m., The Indianapolis Star
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The F.B.I. was investigating claims in Virginia of voter intimidation and polling place misdirection, according to several reports. ABC News said it had obtained an audio file of a phone message left for one registered voter in which a caller, claiming to be from the State Board of Elections, told the voter that he was not registered in Virginia and that he would be criminally prosecuted if he attempted to vote
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In Missouri, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the state’s top election official, was asked to show identification — three times — while casting an absentee ballot on Friday despite a recent state high court ruling upholding a lower court decision that photo I.D.’s were not necessary to vote.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/washington/07cnd-day.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=05d0b06a6fe300cf&ex=1320555600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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.
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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.html

election 2006
Voting machines may have glitch
In Cuyahoga County about 10 percent of the paper receipts were somehow compromised.
By Laura A. Bischoff
Staff Writer
Contact this reporter at [phone] or [e-mail].
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/081706voting.html

Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
Researchers, Candidates Have Little Confidence in Machines Designed to Make Elections Easier to Call
By JAKE TAPPER, REBECCA ABRAHAMS and EDUARDO SUNOL
Oct. 22, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/Story?id=2596705&page=1
Machines malfunctioned in Texas, where 100,000 votes were added.
In California, directions for voters with vision problems came out in Vietnamese.
And in Maryland, screens froze and memory cards went missing.

Eight Losers Now Winners
This article was published on Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:22 PM CST in News
By Michelle Burhenn
The Morning News

BENTONVILLE -- The results of eight races flip-flopped Thursday after the Benton County Election Commission fixed a computer glitch.
The commission announced the new results Thursday after working until 3 a.m. that morning to fix a computer problem that threw out tabulated votes as new votes were entered on election night.

The new results reflected a much higher turnout. Tuesday's results showed only 47,134 people voted, a 49 percent turnout. Thursday's numbers showed 79,331 votes were cast, a 83 percent turnout.
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/11/10/news/111006bzelectionresults.txt

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Electronic Voting Equipment Problems Tabulated By State And County
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-143.htm#alaska

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Watch Countdown with Rush Holt Friday January 11,2008.. Rush Holt will be introducing legislation next week that would allow states to be reimbursed who to choose to use voter verified paper ballots for the November election.
20 states in whole or in part can not verify the vote.