About 10 to 15 people at a precinct in Nelson County were asked to come back after the precinct ran out of provisional ballots, Rodrigues said.
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Hanover County Registrar Robert Ostergren reports this morning that "things are beginning to settle down" after a variety of problems made for a slow start in some polling places.
Similar to Chesterfield County, some Hanover poll workers had problems administering a new electronic poll book used to check in voters. Also, he said, four voting machines had to be replaced
Chesterfield Registrar Larry Haake said there were delays checking in voters through the electronic poll books that lasted for about an hour after opening at 6 a.m. "I'm told some voters left before got them (poll books) up and working, and we hope they return
VA: Steady stream of voters at the polls today*
http://www.wvec.com/news/politics/Voters-hit-the-polls-early-106509248.html
There was a short-lived power outage in the Rappahannock area early this morning that took down the electronic poll books, so elections officials used paper poll book back-ups.
VA: Electronic poll check-in books debut across Va.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=2102760
VA: UPDATE: Turnout surge continues at polls as closing nears*
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2010/nov/02/voters-turning-out-city-elections-ar-623807/
Several voting machines at Timberlake Christian Church in Campbell County briefly went blank sometime between 9-11 a.m. today. Danos attributed the problem to "some kind of power surge."
Only the touch-screen computers were affected and no votes were lost as a result, she said. Following that, the computers were rebooted and voting resumed.
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Several voting machines in Bedford County earlier Tuesday had been giving error messages when voters cast their ballots, which Gunter said would delay results.
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Having a technician come in the day after an election to retrieve information from a machine has only happened twice before in six or seven years of using such machines, she said.
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BradBlog Election Day Problem Report Wire...
[Will update throughout the day/night, as warranted. On/off the air all day today, so trying to keep up as I can. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8172
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Hanover County Registrar Robert Ostergren reports this morning that "things are beginning to settle down" after a variety of problems made for a slow start in some polling places.
Similar to Chesterfield County, some Hanover poll workers had problems administering a new electronic poll book used to check in voters. Also, he said, four voting machines had to be replaced
Chesterfield Registrar Larry Haake said there were delays checking in voters through the electronic poll books that lasted for about an hour after opening at 6 a.m. "I'm told some voters left before got them (poll books) up and working, and we hope they return
VA: Steady stream of voters at the polls today*
http://www.wvec.com/news/politics/Voters-hit-the-polls-early-106509248.html
There was a short-lived power outage in the Rappahannock area early this morning that took down the electronic poll books, so elections officials used paper poll book back-ups.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=2102760
VA: UPDATE: Turnout surge continues at polls as closing nears*
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2010/nov/02/voters-turning-out-city-elections-ar-623807/
Several voting machines at Timberlake Christian Church in Campbell County briefly went blank sometime between 9-11 a.m. today. Danos attributed the problem to "some kind of power surge."
Only the touch-screen computers were affected and no votes were lost as a result, she said. Following that, the computers were rebooted and voting resumed.
...
Several voting machines in Bedford County earlier Tuesday had been giving error messages when voters cast their ballots, which Gunter said would delay results.
...
Having a technician come in the day after an election to retrieve information from a machine has only happened twice before in six or seven years of using such machines, she said.
National
Total Election Awareness: Track Voting Problem Reports in Real Time
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/total-election-awareness
OurVoteLive.org records every call made to the hotline, helps EPC staff to coordinate their legal response work, and provides an anonymized public view of every record.
Want to see 866-OUR-VOTE's 10,000+ problem reports for this election?
http://www.ourvotelive.org/ The website allows the general public a window onto EPC's election protection efforts by providing anonymized versions of EPC's records.
BradBlog Election Day Problem Report Wire...
[Will update throughout the day/night, as warranted. On/off the air all day today, so trying to keep up as I can. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8172
Voting News by Joyce McCloy.
Archives here at http://votingnews.blogspot.com/
Also on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/VotingNews
and at Twitter http://twitter.com/VotingNews
Subscribe to Voting News at this link: http://tinyurl.com/votingnews
To assist with Daily Voting News, please send links to news articles to us at votingnews@earthlink.net
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Donate online at this link: http://tinyurl.com/donate-vn
Disclaimer: Articles and commentary included in "Voting News" do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors of Voting News,or its allied organizations. Articles are selected for inclusion to inform subscribers'ability to draw their own conclusions based on noteworthy and credible news,research, legislation, and debate bearing on the integrity of elections.
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