brennan center for justice
brennan center for justice brennan center for justice
October 2008October 2008October 2008ES&SiVotronicHart InterCiviceSlateES&SiVotronicTennesseeTennesseeTennesseebe the result of a “computer glitch.” 476Davidson County, TNAccording to the Tennessean, a voting “machinemalfunctioned” in Davidson County, when it wouldnot let a voter see her ballot. Election officialsnevertheless told her that she had already voted, andasked her to “move on.” At another site in thecounty, at least one voter had trouble using thetouch-screen machine. 477Knox County, TNThe Knoxville News Sentinel reported that an“anomaly in the voting machines” caused only thefirst three letters of the candidates’ first names toappear on the review screen. This caused some votersto be confused about for whom their votes wererecorded. 478Decatur County, TNAccording to the Decatur County Chronicle, severalvoters complained that voting machines “switched”their votes in the presidential race, checking acandidate for whom they did not intend to vote.Voters told the paper that Election CommissionerRick Box told them that the problem could occurwhen an individual touched the screen close to theborder of the button containing a candidate’s name.October 2008ES&SiVotronicTexas“[Box] blames the problem in part on poor design bysoftware programmers, and adds that there may besensitivity issues with the screen itself. ElectionRegistrar Irene Campbell disagrees. She said therewas no problem with the machines, though at theurging of state officials machine technicians werecalled in late Monday afternoon to investigate theproblem.” 479Jefferson County, TXAccording to local television station KBMT, JeffersonCounty had some problems with electronic votingmachines flipping votes. “[County Clerk Carolyn]Guidry says she has received less than a dozencomplaints about the machines. Guidry said it isimportant for voters to make sure they are completelywithin the lines on the screen when selecting acandidate.” 480October 2008 Premier Texas Collin & Galveston Counties, TX88 | Brennan Center for Justice
AccuVote TSR6; HartInterCiviceScan; PremierAccuVote TSXAccording to Wired, “[a] number of voters in severalTexas counties have been complaining that votingmachines they used to cast early votes flipped theirvotes from Democratic choices to Republican ones”when they tried to use the straight-party option onthe machines.October 2008ES&SiVotronicTexasThe problem was reported in at least seven countieswhich use several different voting systemsmanufactured by Hart InterCivic, ES&S, andPremier. “A Hart InterCivic spokesman said that atleast one of the scenarios that a voter described isn’tpossible on the company’s machines. A spokesmanfor ES&S said very few voters had complained and asfar as he knew poll workers were never able toreplicate the situation they described.” According tothe magazine, voters in jurisdictions West Virginiaand Tennessee that use the same ES&S machineshave also complained of vote flipping, though notwhen using the straight-party function. 481Jefferson County, TXAccording to CNN, voters in Jefferson County hadproblems with the electronic voting machinesflipping votes. A man reported that his mother“went to punch the selection for Obama and itflipped to McCain.”Jefferson County Clerk Carolyn Guidry told CNNthat she “received about a half a dozen calls abouttouch screen machines that were not recording voters’preferences accurately…. ‘We go out immediatelyand re-calibrate machines that [polling workers] saythey are having problems with,’ Guidry said.”Calibration, the process of identifying for themachine the point on the screen that is being touch,generally resolves the problem until repeated use ofthe machine requires another re-calibration.”“But Guidry concedes that the problem . . . issomething that needs fixing. ‘I wish we could moreor less double the space between each box [with thecandidates’ names on the touch screen],’ said Guidry.‘But the program is not designed to do that rightnow.’ Guidry also told CNN that Jefferson Countyhas asked Election Systems & Software, themanufacturer of the county’s machines, to look intomaking that change in the next iteration of theBrennan Center for Justice | 89
- Page 44 and 45: C. Analogous RegimesCivil penalty p
- Page 46 and 47: Of course, adding these kinds of pr
- Page 49 and 50: v. conclusionVoting is the most imp
- Page 51 and 52: System Vulnerabilities: should incl
- Page 53 and 54: February2008September2004November20
- Page 55 and 56: November2006November2006ES&SiVotron
- Page 57 and 58: June 2008SequoiaOptech 400CCaliforn
- Page 59 and 60: March 2004March 2004DieboldAccuVote
- Page 61 and 62: February2008September2008PremierAcc
- Page 63 and 64: event of an overvote displayed a co
- Page 67 and 68: January 2008January 2008PremierAccu
- Page 69 and 70: November2004ES&SM650FloridaSupervis
- Page 71 and 72: October 2008February2008PremierAccu
- Page 73 and 74: February2008February2008October 200
- Page 75 and 76: 2004 AccuVote 2000ESNovember2008Nov
- Page 77 and 78: November2008November2008Hart InterC
- Page 79 and 80: February2008May 2006August 2004May2
- Page 81 and 82: March 2008June 2009November2008Prem
- Page 83 and 84: February2008November2006SequoiaAVC
- Page 85 and 86: November2008SequoiaImageCastNew Yor
- Page 87 and 88: November2004November2004UnilectPatr
- Page 89 and 90: November2008November2008March 2008E
- Page 91 and 92: May 2008April 2008November2006May 2
- Page 93: 2006 iVotronicThe Post & Courier re
- Page 97 and 98: November2006ES&S:iVotronicTexasHida
- Page 99 and 100: November2003November2009November200
- Page 101 and 102: October 2008October 2008May 2008ES&
- Page 103 and 104: appendix c : dupage county election
- Page 105 and 106: and resolve problems with certified
- Page 107 and 108: 49. E-mail from Carolyn Crnich, Cle
- Page 109 and 110: 95. Kleinberg, supra note 92.96. Ma
- Page 111 and 112: 143. Telephone Interview with Rokey
- Page 113 and 114: 187. Id. at 22.188. See Thomas, sup
- Page 115 and 116: 1801 (“[T]he Secretary shall init
- Page 117 and 118: 258. See United States Department o
- Page 119 and 120: 294. John Archibald & Brett J. Blac
- Page 121 and 122: 334. Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Coun
- Page 123 and 124: 374. Glitch Keeps Fulton Voters Wai
- Page 125 and 126: 417. Joe Dejka & Chris Olson, A Lat
- Page 127 and 128: 457. Letter from Dave Byrd, Preside
- Page 129: 498. Lauren Glendenning, Voting Gli
- Page 132: ennancenterfor justiceAt New York U
October 2008October 2008October 2008ES&SiVotronicHart InterCiviceSlateES&SiVotronicTennesseeTennesseeTennesseebe the result of a “computer glitch.” 476Davidson County, TNAccording to the Tennessean, a voting “machinemalfunctioned” in Davidson County, when it wouldnot let a voter see her ballot. Election officialsnevertheless told her that she had already voted, andasked her to “move on.” At another site in thecounty, at least one voter had trouble using thetouch-screen machine. 477Knox County, TNThe Knoxville News Sentinel reported that an“anomaly in the voting machines” caused only thefirst three letters of the candidates’ first names toappear on the review screen. This caused some votersto be confused about <strong>for</strong> whom their votes wererecorded. 478Decatur County, TNAccording to the Decatur County Chronicle, severalvoters complained that voting machines “switched”their votes in the presidential race, checking acandidate <strong>for</strong> whom they did not intend to vote.Voters told the paper that Election CommissionerRick Box told them that the problem could occurwhen an individual touched the screen close to theborder of the button containing a candidate’s name.October 2008ES&SiVotronicTexas“[Box] blames the problem in part on poor design bysoftware programmers, and adds that there may besensitivity issues with the screen itself. ElectionRegistrar Irene Campbell disagrees. She said therewas no problem with the machines, though at theurging of state officials machine technicians werecalled in late Monday afternoon to investigate theproblem.” 479Jefferson County, TXAccording to local television station KBMT, JeffersonCounty had some problems with electronic votingmachines flipping votes. “[County Clerk Carolyn]Guidry says she has received less than a dozencomplaints about the machines. Guidry said it isimportant <strong>for</strong> voters to make sure they are completelywithin the lines on the screen when selecting acandidate.” 480October 2008 Premier Texas Collin & Galveston Counties, TX88 | Brennan Center <strong>for</strong> Justice
Change language