Florida, 2006. 89K votes missing on ES&S touchscreens in the Attorney General race. (This is a calculated number based on information provided by Florida Fair Elections Coalition: ES&S touchscreens recorded an undervote rate of 8.65%, while ES&S Optical Scanner recorded an undervote of 3.04%; Diebold Optical Scanner 2.272%, and Sequoia touchscreen 3.0%.) Miami-Dade, Florida, 2005. Computer error failed to count votes during the March 8 special election. 2004. (1) Both phantom votes and lost votes in the November election. The number of voters reported by election workers didn't match the number of ballots cast in 260 (35%) of Miami-Dade's 749 polling places. Some showed more votes than voters ("phantom votes"); others showed significantly more voters than ballots cast. (2) Voters filed 14,253 complaint forms about election-day problems. (3) Audit log failed to account for 162 ballots cast. (4) The central database machines used to tabulate votes are incapable of holding all the audit data at once. 2002. 8.2% of the votes were "lost" in 31 problem precincts. Significantly more votes were lost in predominantly black areas; The order of the order of candidates' names were changes as results were computed, initially showing wins for two candidates who actually lost the election.
Florida, Broward County. 2002. A software error caused 103,222 (22%) votes cast on ES&S iVotronic paperless voting machines not to be counted in the initial tally; Touch screens register votes incorrectly. Machines register votes for opponents instead of the candidate selected; Machines showed 134 blank ballots. The winning margin was 12 votes. 2005. One of the two items on the March 8 ballot failed to appear on the screen for many of the voters who participated in the Parallel Election Project.
Florida, Sarasota County. 2006. 18K votes missing in an undervote rate of 12.92%. 2004. 189 votes were never counted.
References:
1. Bradenton Herald, Duane Marsteller, “Buchanan Funds Campaign Again,” The Herald, 10/31/08
click here style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Marsteller, Duane, “Feds move to suspend company that certified electronic voting machines that Sarasota County used in contested 2006,” 10/30/08
click here GAO Elections: Results of GAO’s Testing of Voting Systems Used in Sarasota County in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0897t.pdf, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/08425t.pdf, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/071167t.pdf
A Closer Look at the GAO’s Florida District 13. No smoking gun . . . Not if, but when and how often.
Sarasota 13: If the tests can't find it, never mind it?
Other sources:
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