NY: Voters encounter unavailable ballots, bleed-through and jammed scanners*
http://www.lohud.com/article/20101102/NEWS02/11020374/-1/newsfront/Hartsdale-voters-unable-to-cast-ballot-at-polling-place-this-morning Voters were turned away and not able to vote for about 2 hours for lack of ballots in Hartsdale this morning.
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At Port Chester High School, the scanning machine did not work at all this morning. A poll worker said the polling place had run out of emergency paper ballots and was having people use the scannable ballots
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Margaret Wade said she was turned away from the 555 W Hartsdale Ave. Solomon Schechter School library at 7:50 a.m.
"We were told they couldn't find the ballots," Wade said. They had no idea when they would have ballots, they had no alternative plan and they were not keeping a tally of how many people were being turned away, she said.
A poll worker told Wade about 25 people had not been able to vote so far. Wade said there were a number of people parking to go vote as she left the school.
The ballots had been locked away by the school custodian, and he could not be found to unlock them, Board of Elections Commissioner Douglas A. Colety said after 8 a.m. The condition was corrected, he believed, shortly after 8 a.m.
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In Lewisboro and other areas with back-of-ballot propositions, bleed-through disabled the scanning machines for about 1 1/2 hours this morning, Meehan said. She got the last complaint on that issue around 7:30 a.m.
The resolution was to have people vote using a ball point pen instead of the special voting pens, she s
NY: Some hiccups reported with new NY voting machines*
http://www.cbs6albany.com/articles/new-1279952-machines-voting.html
One of three ballot-scanning machines was out of service at the church in Mount Kisco where the Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo, voted Tuesday morning.
The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked-up ballots.
NY: #10918 Nov. 2 2010 / 2:52p.m. ET New York, NY
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/10918 davisoperator Polling Place: PS 29 2010 General Election, Voting equipment problem: Mobile legal volunteer reports that 2 out of 5 scanners are not working and have paper jams. The poll workers have contacted the BOE about the problem, but have not contacted a technician.
NY: 11724 Nov. 2 2010 / 4:00p.m. ET E. Meadow, Nassau, NY
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/11724
davisoperator Precinct: HEM 15020, Polling Place: McVey Elementary 2010 General Election: Had made a mistake - voted for wrong person. When asked what to do, poll workers didn't know. 4 people working at polls said she couldn't take another ballot and that she had forfeited her right to vote. Ultimately, she spoke with a supervisor, got a replacement
OH: There's a Gremlin in My Voting Machine!
http://www.ohiofreepress.com/general/2010/theres-a-gremlin-in-my-voting-machine/
..if anyone sees anything out of place, experiences a "gremlin" in their voting machines or has evidence of voter intimidation, electioneering or anything else out of place, please let the Ohio Free Press know.
PA: Electronic Voting Machine Problems Raise Early Concerns*(iVotronic vote flip)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/02/electronic-voting-machine-problems-raise-concerns/ According to Pamela Smith, who heads the Election Protection Command Center, a national non-profit, non-partisan vote monitoring organization, early results from volunteers around the country and from voters who call a toll-free number (1-866 OUR VOTE) show that reports of vote flipping and other problems are already severe enough to "cause concern."
Smith said problems with iVotronic machines have cropped up in Pennsylvania's Lawrence County, where voters trying to vote a straight party ticket registered their votes for another party in essence, flipping the votes.
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n Philadelphia, which often provides Pennsylvania's Democratic candidates their pluralities, older electronic voting machines have been breaking down, and poll workers do not have or are not giving out emergency paper ballots.
RI: Digging Deeper: Ballot Security
http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2010/nov/02/digging-deeper-ballot-security-ar-278462/
SC: Some candidates appearing twice on ballot, completely legal
http://www2.counton2.com/news/2010/nov/02/some-candidates-appearing-twice-ballot-completely--ar-1042531/ "It's called Fusion Voting, and South Carolina law allows candidates to run under as many parties as they want", said Bowers.
SC: #10653 Nov. 2 2010 / 2:49p.m. ET Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, SC*
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/10653 davisoperator 2010 General Election: Caller reported that the machines at Folly Beach polling place were mis-programmed and ballot was wrong. They let 180 people vote on machines with ballot incorrect; discovered ballots were wrong, got a new machine in from county - only 1 machine, but 1200
SC: Large turnout seen at polls this morning* (voting machine, epoll book probs)
http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/11/02/1428967/large-turnout-seen-at-polls-this.html
Hamilton reported just one glitch -- one of the five machines there wasn't working properly early in the morning, but a county worker had it up and running again by about 7:50 a.m., he said.
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In Kershaw County, near Columbia, computerized voter registration lists were indicating the wrong ballot style, according to The (Columbia) State newspaper.
For example, at least one voter was set up on a voting machine with a ballot that had the wrong S.C. House district, said Rosalind Watson, director of elections for the county. That voter realized the ballot was wrong, notified poll workers and the ballot was canceled.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20101102/NEWS02/11020374/-1/newsfront/Hartsdale-voters-unable-to-cast-ballot-at-polling-place-this-morning Voters were turned away and not able to vote for about 2 hours for lack of ballots in Hartsdale this morning.
...
At Port Chester High School, the scanning machine did not work at all this morning. A poll worker said the polling place had run out of emergency paper ballots and was having people use the scannable ballots
...
Margaret Wade said she was turned away from the 555 W Hartsdale Ave. Solomon Schechter School library at 7:50 a.m.
"We were told they couldn't find the ballots," Wade said. They had no idea when they would have ballots, they had no alternative plan and they were not keeping a tally of how many people were being turned away, she said.
A poll worker told Wade about 25 people had not been able to vote so far. Wade said there were a number of people parking to go vote as she left the school.
The ballots had been locked away by the school custodian, and he could not be found to unlock them, Board of Elections Commissioner Douglas A. Colety said after 8 a.m. The condition was corrected, he believed, shortly after 8 a.m.
...
In Lewisboro and other areas with back-of-ballot propositions, bleed-through disabled the scanning machines for about 1 1/2 hours this morning, Meehan said. She got the last complaint on that issue around 7:30 a.m.
NY: Some hiccups reported with new NY voting machines*
http://www.cbs6albany.com/articles/new-1279952-machines-voting.html
One of three ballot-scanning machines was out of service at the church in Mount Kisco where the Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo, voted Tuesday morning.
The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked-up ballots.
NY: #10918 Nov. 2 2010 / 2:52p.m. ET New York, NY
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/10918 davisoperator Polling Place: PS 29 2010 General Election, Voting equipment problem: Mobile legal volunteer reports that 2 out of 5 scanners are not working and have paper jams. The poll workers have contacted the BOE about the problem, but have not contacted a technician.
NY: 11724 Nov. 2 2010 / 4:00p.m. ET E. Meadow, Nassau, NY
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/11724
davisoperator Precinct: HEM 15020, Polling Place: McVey Elementary 2010 General Election: Had made a mistake - voted for wrong person. When asked what to do, poll workers didn't know. 4 people working at polls said she couldn't take another ballot and that she had forfeited her right to vote. Ultimately, she spoke with a supervisor, got a replacement
OH: There's a Gremlin in My Voting Machine!
http://www.ohiofreepress.com/general/2010/theres-a-gremlin-in-my-voting-machine/
..if anyone sees anything out of place, experiences a "gremlin" in their voting machines or has evidence of voter intimidation, electioneering or anything else out of place, please let the Ohio Free Press know.
PA: Electronic Voting Machine Problems Raise Early Concerns*(iVotronic vote flip)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/02/electronic-voting-machine-problems-raise-concerns/ According to Pamela Smith, who heads the Election Protection Command Center, a national non-profit, non-partisan vote monitoring organization, early results from volunteers around the country and from voters who call a toll-free number (1-866 OUR VOTE) show that reports of vote flipping and other problems are already severe enough to "cause concern."
Smith said problems with iVotronic machines have cropped up in Pennsylvania's Lawrence County, where voters trying to vote a straight party ticket registered their votes for another party in essence, flipping the votes.
...
n Philadelphia, which often provides Pennsylvania's Democratic candidates their pluralities, older electronic voting machines have been breaking down, and poll workers do not have or are not giving out emergency paper ballots.
RI: Digging Deeper: Ballot Security
http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2010/nov/02/digging-deeper-ballot-security-ar-278462/
SC: Some candidates appearing twice on ballot, completely legal
http://www2.counton2.com/news/2010/nov/02/some-candidates-appearing-twice-ballot-completely--ar-1042531/ "It's called Fusion Voting, and South Carolina law allows candidates to run under as many parties as they want", said Bowers.
SC: #10653 Nov. 2 2010 / 2:49p.m. ET Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, SC*
http://www.ourvotelive.org/report/10653 davisoperator 2010 General Election: Caller reported that the machines at Folly Beach polling place were mis-programmed and ballot was wrong. They let 180 people vote on machines with ballot incorrect; discovered ballots were wrong, got a new machine in from county - only 1 machine, but 1200
SC: Large turnout seen at polls this morning* (voting machine, epoll book probs)
http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/11/02/1428967/large-turnout-seen-at-polls-this.html
Hamilton reported just one glitch -- one of the five machines there wasn't working properly early in the morning, but a county worker had it up and running again by about 7:50 a.m., he said.
...
In Kershaw County, near Columbia, computerized voter registration lists were indicating the wrong ballot style, according to The (Columbia) State newspaper.
For example, at least one voter was set up on a voting machine with a ballot that had the wrong S.C. House district, said Rosalind Watson, director of elections for the county. That voter realized the ballot was wrong, notified poll workers and the ballot was canceled.
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