Texas counties and related voting problems during 2006 primary

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I was sent a word document of these stories. I fixed the broken links and added some more stories. DU is a good place to keep this kind of research, so here you are. I also have each of these stories in text format as well, in case they disappear into the media archives on these sites. Feel free to keep adding other stories as you find them. My favorite story headline "Hairy Potter elections".

A List of Texas counties (with related stories in the press) where problems with voting machines occurred on Primary Election Day, March 7, 2006

• El Paso County- Recount sought in District 78 race (Diebold)
  
• Galveston County- New voting system, same problems (Hart eSlate and eScan)
  
• Hidalgo County:
  
  
  
  • Garcia Won't Concede Election, Questions Many Ballots (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Elections administrator sends complaints to state office (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Salinas earns majority over Garcia with all precincts in (County found votes on unused machines) (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  
  
• Jefferson County
  
  
  
  • Jefferson County election recount (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Election officials try to work out bugs (ES&S)
    
  • Voting woes mar debut of electronic ballots (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Confusion mars new voting process (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Jefferson County recounts votes; same winners, different numbers
    
  • Highest turnout in years meets technical glitches (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • ES&S Promises Smoother Elections In The Future (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • Jefferson County Withholding ES&S Payment Until After Runoff (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  • County votes no for payment (ES&S iVotronic)
    
  
  
  
• Potter and Randall Counties- Electronic voting goes smoothly - 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 says glitches delayed results (ES&S)
    
  
  
  
• Starr County - County candidates seek recount
  
  
• Tarrant County:
  
  
  
  • Vote spike blamed on program snafu (Hart InterCivic -eSlate) (100,000 votes added to the total due to programming error)
    
  • County ponders recount of votes Hart Intercivic (Hart InterCivic -eSlate)
    
  • Primary election outcomes challenged (Hart InterCivic -eSlate)
    
  
  
  
• Tom Green County:
  
  
  
  • Computer problems delay election returns (Hart InterCivic -eSlate)
    
  • Election official: Paper ballots will stay despite delays (Hart InterCivic -eSlate)
    
  • Ballot recount stopped (Hart InterCivic -eSlate)
    
  
  
  
• Webb County/Bexar:
  
  
  
  • Cuellar keeps job, Rodriguez says narrow lead has message (Counting problems – ES&S)
    
  • Cuellar defeats Rodriguez in congressional grudge match (Counting problems – ES&S)
    
  • Election uproar; Webb County officials say there were plenty of red flags ES&S
    
  • Glitches' get blame in Webb (ES&S)
    
  • Editorial: E-voting continues to present problems (ES&S)
    
  
  
  
• Williamson County- Ballot counting runs into lags in Williamson County (ES&S iVotronic)
  
• TX: Most voters give the system a thumbs up (It's apparent that where voters are given a choice between e-voting and paper they go to the paper)
  
  

Sonia