Voting Machine Glitches Plague TX Counties

April 8th, 2006

News for Public Officials

Voting Machine Problems in Texas

• El Paso County - Recount sought in District 78 race 

• Ft. Bend County - What They Aren't Telling You About The County's eSlate Voting System

• Galveston County - New voting system, same problems (Hart eSlate and eScan) 

• Hidalgo County - Garcia Won't Concede Election, Questions Many Ballots (ES&S iVotronic)  

• Hidalgo County - Elections administrator sends complaints to state office 

• Hidalgo County - Salinas earns majority over Garcia with all precincts in (County found votes on unused machines) (ES&S iVotronic) 

• Jefferson County - County to Recount Votes Monday Afternoon (ES&S will be paying for this recount)
  Jefferson County - Jefferson County election recount (ES&S iVotronic)
  Jefferson County - Election officials try to work out bugs (ES&S) 

• Jefferson County - Voting woes mar debut of electronic ballots (ES&S iVotronic)
  Jefferson County - Confusion mars new voting process 

• Jefferson County - Jefferson County recounts votes; same winners, different numbers  

• Jefferson County - Highest turnout in years meets technical glitches (ES&S iVotronic) 

• Potter and Randall Counties - Electronic voting  not tallying (Potter – ES&S iVotronic Randall – Hart eSlate)

• Potter County - Hairy Potter elections (ES&S)

• Robertson County - Robertson County vote tallies delayed (ES&S) 
  Robertson County - Robertson County says glitches delayed results (ES&S) 

• Starr County - County candidates seek recount

• Tarrant County - Vote spike blamed on program snafu (Hart InterCivic) (100,000 votes added to the total due to programming error) 

• Tom Green County - Computer problems delay election returns (Hart eScan)
  Tom Green County - Electronic machines not providing all info (Hart Intercivic)

• Webb County - Cuellar defeats Rodriguez in congressional grudge match (Counting problems  – ES&S) 

• Webb County - Election uproar; Webb County officials say there were plenty of red flags  

• Webb and Bexar County - ‘Glitches' get blame in Webb (ES&S) 

• Webb and Bexar Counties - Editorial: E-voting continues to present problems (ES&S

• Williamson County - Ballot counting runs into lags in Williamson County (ES&S iVotronic) 

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What They Aren't Telling You About The County's eSlate Voting System

by Prescott Small, an information technology professional

Fort Bend Now - Posted 03/28/06

When it comes to the issue of eVoting & eSlate, the voter is not getting the whole story.

There have been numerous claims of security vulnerabilities, concerns over exclusive access to the systems and a plethora of rumors of past exploits of the eSlate system.