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October 2008May 2008March 2008March 2008November2006ES&SiVotronicHart InterCiviceSlateHart InterCiviceSlateES&SModel 100Diebold:TS-R6TexasTexasTexasTexasTexassoftware.” 482Palo Pinto County, TXAccording to the Mineral Wells Index, “[a]t least twoPalo Pinto County residents say they experiencedearly voting problems when the touch-screen votingmachines they used kept switching their straightpartyvote from Democratic to Republican. 483Cass County, TXThe Atlanta Citizens Journal reported that an “error”allowed voters who did not live in District 1 to votefor the District’s city council. City Manager MikeAhrens told the paper that the mistake was made bythe manufacturer, which failed to program themachines to restrict voting in the District 1 electionto voters who live in the district. According toAhrens, the company admitted fault. 484Travis County, TXThere were delays in voting at one polling location,the Daily Texan reported, after “[a] techniciandiscovered that the machine responsible for printingout access codes for voters was broken. Votingresumed about 10 a.m. after the machine was shutdown and replaced with a new one.” Travis CountyClerk Dana DeBeauvoir told the paper that her officehad received reports of broken machines from otherprecincts, as well. 485Angelina County, TXAccording to the Lufkin Daily News, a “programmingerror” caused the central tabulator to be unable toread the cards containing the count data. “‘Eachmachine will only take 10 precincts,’ [Acting TaxAssessor Thelma] Sherman said. ‘The precinctnumbers labeled on the cards did not match theinformation inside the card, and the machines wouldnot accept them. We had to go back and start fromscratch, physically counting ballots at times.’” 486El Paso County, TXEl Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez told KFOX-TV News that 16 people complained that a vote caston their touch-screen ballot registered to the wrongcandidate. Five of the people called Rodriguez’s officeto complain. Eleven others called a local radio showto complain. 48790 | Brennan Center for Justice
November2006ES&S:iVotronicTexasHidalgo County, TXAccording to the Dallas Morning News, electionofficials had to recount votes for U.S. House District28 manually after discovering that the device used todownload election totals from its touch-screenmachine malfunctioned.October 2006October 2006March 2006March 2004ES&S:iVotronic;M650ES&S:iVotronicHart:eSlate; eScanES&S:M315TexasTexasTexasTexas“The director of elections for the Texas Secretary ofState's office, Ann McGeehan, said votes would becounted using a printout generated by each votingmachine.” 488Bexar County, TXThe San Antonio Express News reported that thetabulation of election results was delayed for one anda half hours because the tabulation computers hadnot been programmed with updated data in order tocount “mail-in” paper ballots. The computer systemwas taken off-line and updated with the informationneeded to process the 3,000 paper ballots, whichwere then tabulated using high-speed scanners. 489Jefferson County, TXDuring early voting, voters complained that whenthey selected a particular candidate, anothercandidate’s name would light up. KDFM reportedthat the vote switching occurred with voters who hadcast a straight Democratic ticket as well as individualvotes. 490Tarrant County, TXAccording to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, aprogramming error during the Tarrant Countyprimary election caused an extra 100,000 votes to berecorded than had been cast. Initial tallies indicatedthat 158,000 people had voted when actually onlyapproximately 58,000 had voted. The problemsstemmed from a programming error created by thevendor, Hart InterCivic. The error caused thecomputer to compound vote totals each time theelection totals were updated throughout the night,rather than simply keeping a running total. 491Lubbock County, TXAccording to the Lubbock Avalanche Journal,machines failed to count votes in the race for Precinct8 Democratic chairman. The ballots had to berecounted with alternate software, provided byBrennan Center for Justice | 91
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October 2008May 2008March 2008March 2008November2006ES&SiVotronicHart InterCiviceSlateHart InterCiviceSlateES&SModel 100Diebold:TS-R6TexasTexasTexasTexasTexassoftware.” 482Palo Pinto County, TXAccording to the Mineral Wells Index, “[a]t least twoPalo Pinto County residents say they experiencedearly voting problems when the touch-screen votingmachines they used kept switching their straightpartyvote from Democratic to Republican. 483Cass County, TXThe Atlanta Citizens Journal reported that an “error”allowed voters who did not live in District 1 to vote<strong>for</strong> the District’s city council. City Manager MikeAhrens told the paper that the mistake was made bythe manufacturer, which failed to program themachines to restrict voting in the District 1 electionto voters who live in the district. According toAhrens, the company admitted fault. 484Travis County, TXThere were delays in voting at one polling location,the Daily Texan reported, after “[a] techniciandiscovered that the machine responsible <strong>for</strong> printingout access codes <strong>for</strong> voters was broken. Votingresumed about 10 a.m. after the machine was shutdown and replaced with a new one.” Travis CountyClerk Dana DeBeauvoir told the paper that her officehad received reports of broken machines from otherprecincts, as well. 485Angelina County, TXAccording to the Lufkin Daily News, a “programmingerror” caused the central tabulator to be unable toread the cards containing the count data. “‘Eachmachine will only take 10 precincts,’ [Acting TaxAssessor Thelma] Sherman said. ‘The precinctnumbers labeled on the cards did not match thein<strong>for</strong>mation inside the card, and the machines wouldnot accept them. We had to go back and start fromscratch, physically counting ballots at times.’” 486El Paso County, TXEl Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez told KFOX-TV News that 16 people complained that a vote caston their touch-screen ballot registered to the wrongcandidate. Five of the people called Rodriguez’s officeto complain. Eleven others called a local radio showto complain. 48790 | Brennan Center <strong>for</strong> Justice
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