"WASHINGTON, Nov. 18- For eight months, the Election Verification Project, a national coalition of technologists, voting rights and legal organizations, has worked to raise public awareness of the need to reduce computerized voting risks, and ensure that votes will be recorded and counted as cast. . ."
Their handout regarding Nov 2 events.
Summary:
- Significant e-voting problems
- Almost all vendors' products and models
- Most jurisdictions where e-voting installed
- Impacted at least tens or hundreds of thousands of voters
More below the fold . . .
Results:
- Calls fielded by Election Protection Hotline: 175,213 (87,841 on E-Day)
- Incident reports in EIRS: 34,000+ and counting (23,726+ on E-Day)
- "Machine Problem" incidents: 1,876+
- E-Voting incidents: 895+
- Preliminary findings from sample that's still growing, yet not statistically robust
Notable Incidents / Clusters
- Florida: Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties
- Louisiana: Orleans Parish
- New Mexico: Bernalillo County
- North Carolina: Carteret County
- Ohio: Franklin and Mahoning Counties
- Pennsylvania: Dauphin, Mercer, and Philadelphia Counties
Next Steps
- Further analysis and reporting of e-voting problems as well as other voting technologies
- Discussions with election officials, voting technology vendors, and policymakers to improve elections process, technology, and regulation
For more information:
E-Voting Problems Reported:
* Machine breakdown
(total malfunction, sometimes entire polling places, power/battery failures, machines locked, long lines, voters turned away)
- Misrecording (Kerry recorded as Bush and vice-versa, touchscreen calibration)
- Vote switched
- Overcounts and undercounts
- Wrong ballot or race/candidate/party slate missing or not working, no write-ins
- Prefilled ballot choice
- Straight ticket sticking
- Unintended deselections
- Forced votes to complete ballot
- Indicates "challenged ballot"
- Not responding to human touch, just pencil eraser
- Disabled accommodation disables other machines at polling place
- Non-"accessible" voting machine, audio component not working
- Premature casting
- Overwritten votes (prior uncast)
- Switched language (English to Spanish), or Spanish-only
- Vote card times out, rejected, stuck, not reset, or cancels ballot
- Claims vote cast after card removed
- Blank screen / screen goes dark
- Missing or poor distribution of machines
- Audio offers only one candidate
- No paper ballot alternative
- Paper ballots treated as provisional
- Told to use demo machine
- Inadequate poll worker training
- Not zeroed out at beginning of day
- Security seals broken
- Infrared port available
- Cascading error in machine cluster
Participating in this press conference:
Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation
Lillie Coney, National Committee for Voting Integrity/Electronic Privacy Information Center
David Dill, Ph.D., Verified Voting Foundation
Will Doherty, Verified Voting Foundation/Election Incident Reporting System
Chellie Pingree, Common Cause
Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Has anyone seen any media reaction to this press conference held today in Washington DC, 10:30AM - Noon?