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What the election officials were probably not expecting, however, was the experience of one particular Palm Springs voter, who after patiently tapping through screen after screen of national and local officials fulfilling her civic duty was presented with an unsatisfying message of all too familiar a form: “Vote save error #1,” the machine said, “use back-up voting procedure...
...large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes—each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
These incidents ran the severity gamut. In Georgia, where all voting is done on touchscreen machines, voters complained of long lines due to malfunctioning machines or machines with dead batteries. There were complaints of slow machines, and machines which at first refused to accept the “smart cards” each voter used to identify themselves. Some machines crashed or went blank while they were being used...
Ward 7, Precinct 3—which includes all freshman dorms and Adams House as well as Cambridge residents—had an active voter turnout rate of 85 percent. Ward 4, Precinct 3 and Ward 8, Precinct 3—encompassing the River Houses except Adams—had a combined rate of 79 percent. Ward 8, District 1, covering the Quad Houses, had 88 percent...
...Cambridge Election Commission considers any recently registered voter or student who lived on campus within the past calendar year to be an active voter. While active voters can just show up to the polls, inactive voters must bring proof of address and sign an oath swearing that they have lived in Massachusetts in the past six months...