Other reported problems:

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Informationweek

High Tech E-Voting Problems Plague Super Tuesday

Precincts from some of the 24 states voting in the presidential primary Tuesday are reporting performance issues with their electronic tally machines.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
February 5, 2008 04:42 PM

As 24 states hold primaries with close races for both parties, voting results for Super Tuesday have begun trickling in, along with some areas reporting problems with their electronic voting machines.

However, it's not only electronic machines that are drawing concern.

In California, where officials ordered paper voting, election workers braced for heavy counts and worried about their scanners being able to tally a higher-than-usual number of votes.

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104548

Minor Voting Problems Reported In Georgia On Super Tuesday
Voters see some glitches in Super Tuesday vote

ABC

Tuesday, Feb 05, 2008 - 09:12 PM

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In College Park south of Atlanta, there were ten electronic voting machines at one precinct, but only three computers were set up to verify each person's ID. As a result, long lines grew behind the three poll workers frantically trying to check each voter as many of the voting machines sat idle.

Lines reached 90 minutes long at one Atlanta middle school where equipment kept crashing. Elsewhere, voters had to wait in lines of up to two hours and some people turned away from polls after seeing how long they would have to wait, according to the watchdog group Election Protection.

http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2008-02-05-0046.html


LoHud.com

Obama Camp Reports Voting Problems In NYC

The New York campaign for Barack Obama says they are getting reports of more than 10 locations in New York City that have had voting problems, saying the concentration has been in Brooklyn, according to campaign spokesman Marc La Vorgna.
The Associated Press reported that Obama aides were giving people emergency paper ballots and also dispatching lawyers to some sites.
But state Board of Elections spokesman Lee Daghlian said the state has not received reports of any statewide problems. He said there have been some minor reports of machines jamming and voters having a difficult time understanding the ballots.

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/02/05/obama-camp-reports-voting-problems-in-nyc/


CBS

Voting Problems Across Illinois

UNDATED (AP) _ Scattered voting problems were being reported statewide Tuesday.

In Chicago, a fight broke out between two election judges at a precinct this morning. Police spokesman Tom Pollick says a 37-year-old woman was charged with misdemeanor battery. He didn't know what sparked the altercation.

Elsewhere, Chicago election officials were trying to reach voters who were led to believe their votes were being cast in ``invisible ink.'' An election judge distributed styluses intended for touch screen voting instead of ink pens and insisted the votes were being counted.

Meanwhile, the Illinois Green Party said problems -- including missing or damaged Green Party ballots -- made it difficult to vote in the first Illinois primary for which the party has been eligible.

http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=7828401&nav=0zGo


February 5, 2008
Los Angeles = Voting Problems Everywhere?*

*UPDATE, 5:33 P.M.: More problems continue throughout LA County at the beach, in Santa Monica. At Los Angeles City Hall, two City Councilmembers had an emergency press conference telling voters to pay attention when voting and Dharma & Greg Actor Mimi Kennedy explains what's going on in a video interview with LAist. Also, Hillary Clinton answered our interview questions.

We're getting reports of problems from readers, writers and the media. John Ennis, one of the founders of Video the Vote, gave LAist this update. Most of the confusion today is over people who are not registered as Democrat or Republican who want to vote in the primaries. The issue might be that they moved and they thought they were up to date. If you are a non-partisan voter, all you have to do is go to either a Democratic or Republican voting booth. Other than a few precincts not opening on time, Ennis says things seem to be running smooth, but it's early in the day he warned. To report a bad voting experience, call Video the Vote at 866-OUR-VOTE

Here are some other comments we've heard around the interwebs, if you have any stories to tell, let us know in the comments!

http://laist.com/2008/02/05/los_angeles_vot.php

Some problems at Del. polls
By MIKE CHALMERS, The News Journal
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Mitchell Miller showed up at the polls this morning, ready to vote for Barack Obama.

“Let’s get some change,” said the 29-year-old machinist who lives in Wilmington.

But Miller, who said he has been voting Democrat since he turned 18, was turned away from the polling place at Fifth and Jackson streets because election workers said he was registered as a Republican.

“I don’t get it; that’s never happened before,” he said. “This isn’t my first primary. I don’t know what happened.”

Confusion over party registration seemed to present the biggest glitch at Delaware’s polling places today, said Elaine Manlove, state commissioner of elections. Workers at her office had checked records for 10 to 15 voters during the day, she said.

“We had people go to the archives, but we haven’t seen one yet where we were wrong,” Manlove said. “The bulk have been independents who don’t understand the closed primary system or didn’t know how they were registered.”

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS/80205042

NY Times


February 5, 2008, 8:51 pm
Monitors Report Array of Voting Problems in the City

By Sewell Chan

Reports of sporadic voting problems have been coming in since the early morning in New York City, but the complaints seem to have increased in volume and seriousness. Election observers and voters are now describing a variety of concerns: longtime voters finding themselves left off registration rolls even though they have not moved or changed their party status; mechanical failures involving the lever used to activate the Democratic or Republican race between each vote; and poorly trained election workers who had trouble helping voters to use the emergency ballots and affidavit ballots that must be made available if voting equipment fails or if voters are incorrectly left off the registration rolls.

Local lawyers with the National Campaign for Fair Elections, a project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said their Election Protection Hotline in New York City had received hundreds of calls from voters seeking information and assistance today.

The campaign identified these problems in a news release:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/voters-in-city-report-array-of-problems/

[Kurovski]

1. K&R. (nt)

[DCKit]

2. "... only three computers were set up to verify each person's ID."

Who didn't see this coming? Distracting Americans with the bogeyman of voter fraud while stealing the elections with faulty and/or rigged equipment.