Given the number of e-voting problems discovered without an audit so far, we definitely need an audit to see how deep the problems go:
* Columbus, OH - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said. Franklin County?s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry?s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
* Broward Co., FL ? ES&S software on their machines only reads 32,000 votes at a precinct then it starts counting backwards:
http://www.news4jax.com/politics/3890292/detail.html
* Wichita Co., TX ? Nearly 6,900 of 26,000 total early votes had ?undervote? for President. Human error to blame. County has software problems that need ES&S to fix before they can run ballots:
http://www.timesrecordnews.com...N_5784_3303816,00.html
* Lancaster Co., SC ? Unilect Patriot voting machines were used and failed. Printouts of votes had to be taken from the machines memories and hand-counted:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/o...ews/local/10094349.htm
* Mecklenburg Co., NC ? More votes registered than voters:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/c.../politics/10094165.htm
* Volusia Co., FL ? Diebold optical-scan machines had another failure with 6 machines having memory card failures. ?Ion Sancho, the elections supervisor in Leon County, said officials with Diebold told him that the new, higher-capacity memory cards tend to have more glitches than older cards.?:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com...oll=orl-news-headlines
* Craven Co., NC - Software glitch forces a recount which changes the outcome in one race.:
http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteP...8297&Section=Local
* San Francisco, CA - A glitch in the new tabulation software made by ES&S to handle IRV/RCV voting (more here) stoped the counting and forced a recount of 81,000 ballots.:
http://www.internetweek.com/al...tml?articleID=52200321
* Sarpy County, NE - 3000 ?phantom votes? show up after an audit reveals that some tabulation equipment counted votes twice. (I?m not sure if this is optical scan or some other system? they used optical scan in 2002):
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html