Beaver County (vote machines broken in minority precincts, long lines or unable to vote, very high undervote

And low official turnout in minority precincts, voter suppression)

There is indication that some machines were defaulting to blank (no vote) in the presidential race, similar to the major

fraud/glitch/malfunctions in Mercer county which used similar Unilect touch screens. ) (www.flcv.com/mercerpa.html)

(smaller counties in general did not have a very active hotline report system)

EIRS reports

030300	11/02/04, 5:57 AM PST		Machine problem; Other polling place problem		North Sewickley Municipal Building, 893 Mercer Road, Beaver Falls, Beaver County County, Pennsylvania		All of the voting machines are down and the polling place is using "emergency ballots." A woman at the polling place claims that she is a sworn-in judge and will personally put the votes into the computer system once the machines are up and running. Voters at the place are concerned that there will be no oversight when this woman puts their votes into the computer. When they expressed this concern, the woman told the voters that for $10 they could come back at 11:30pm and watch her put the votes into the system. Further, the polling place is running out of these "emergency ballots."
035410	11/02/04, 9:12 AM PST	Machine problem; Other polling place problem		North Sewickley Township Municipal Building, 893 Mercer Road, Beaver Falls, PA 15010, 724-843-5926, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania		Electronic machine down, filled out paper ballot, and was told person was sworn in to inpout votes later. Told it costs $10 to watch it put in.
037062	11/02/04, 11:04 AM PST	Machine problem		North Sewickley Municipal Building; 893 Mercer Road, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania		complaint # 030300; all machines down; using emergency ballots/running out; woman at polling place claims she is a judge and will put all in machine and will let people in at 11:30 pm for $10

Appearance of Suppression

017334	10/29/04, 1:10 PM PST	Absentee-ballot related problem	Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Requested absentee ballot, election officials told him it had been sent, but he has not received it. He is in his home county for the day and went to request another ballot in person and was told they could not give him an additional ballot.
021188	11/01/04, 9:24 AM PST	Registration-related problem	Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Caller was informed that her registration was cancelled in 2000. When she renewed her license at the DMV in August, she was prompted by the computer to indicate whether she'd like to register and she indicated "yes". She also indicated that she wanted to register as a Democrat. She has not received any confirmation of registration from DMV.
024834	11/01/04, 2:38 PM PST	Registration-related problem	Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Husband and wife registered at same time but wife has not received card (husband has)
025656	11/01/04, 3:56 PM PST	Absentee-ballot related problem	Beaver Meadows, Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Never received absentee ballot.
026065	11/01/04, 4:22 PM PST	Registration-related problem	Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Couple moved after getting married. Filed all new address information in the courthouse when they were married. They have not received registration cards. Are they registered in new place? Where do they vote?
027045	11/01/04, 5:59 PM PST	Polling place inquiry	Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Caller registered years ago and she and her mother re-registered recently but never received information in the mail about where to vote.
032081	11/02/04, 7:02 AM PST	Registration-related problem; Polling place inquiry	Beaverfalls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Registered. Went to DMV several years ago. Changed name and address. Did not receive updated voter registration information. Wondering about poll location and name change.
044437	11/02/04, 2:50 PM PST	Provisional ballot problem	Monaca, Beaver County, Pennsylvania	name did not show on the rolls but voter was not offered a provisional ballot
047776	11/02/04, 5:49 PM PST	Registration-related problem	West End School, 926 Crescent Avenue, Ellwood City, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania	He had a registration card but was turned away and was unable to vote. He also was unable to cast a provisional ballot and the polling location is closed. After checking his address, it turns out that they changed his polling location, but his current registration card has the old polling address.
046828	11/02/04, 4:19 PM PST	Registration-related problem	christ temple, 22nd street beaver falls, beaver falls , beaver county County, Pennsylvania	Last year a group of people were registering seniors at the local high school (Big Beaver Falls high school). Went to vote today and found that she was not on rolls. One of the poll workers called the local election board and was told that she was not registered. Person at election board told poll worker, who told voter, that the group that went to the school apparently did not turn in any voter registrations and that there had been other complaints.

Greene County (high undervotes; one report indicates possible default to blank)

030920

11/02/04, 6:20 AM PST

Machine problem

Jefferson Fire Dept, Greene County County, Pennsylvania

The electronic voting machine - choice unclear about how to check that voted properly. Machine seemed to refresh after he voted and when the machine later said confirm your vote he hit the button which deselected and then when at the end he checked his vote before he completed the vote, it said "more choices available". He thought that was because there were other candidates - not because he had failed to vote for President.

Source: www.voteprotect.org