Primary Election Day in the Keystone State!

PFAW Foundation was on the ground in Allegheny County on April 22 as part of the nonpartisan Election Protection program to protect Pennsylvanians' right to vote and have that vote counted. Stay tuned for a wrap-up report of the problems we saw voters encounter at the polls.

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Here are just some of the problems we ran into
on Election Day 2006:

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Pennsylvania

• Report from Allegheny: Three people have not been able to go through all the screens on the voting machine. Each was stopped in a different place.

Ohio

• There were widespread problems with voting machines and confusion implementing the state's photo ID requirement, Election Protects reports.

Washington State

• A voting judge in Washington state telephoned to say that he received a voicemail from a woman purporting to be Maria Cantwell which instructed him to vote in the wrong precinct.

Illinois

• An election judge failed to show up in Will County, and a polling place remained closed an hour after opening time, EP reports.
• Numerous reports of machine failures and poll workers who were unable to operate voting machines in Cook County have led EP to ask officials to extend voting hours.

Florida

• There were no paper ballots while voting machines failed in one predominantly African American Deerfield Beach precinct, keeping the polling place from opening for three and a half hours, EP reports. EP attorneys are working to extend voting hours.

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