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September2004November2006May 2009April 2009March 2008HarteSlate 3000ES&SM550PremierAccuVote-OSPremierAccuVote-OSPremierAcuVote-TSXHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIllinoisIllinoisTechnicians were dispatched to recalibrate machines.The vote-switching problems significantly sloweddown the voting process for those who went to thepolls. By mid afternoon, at least 30-40 votersreported experiencing the vote-switching problem. 378Honolulu, HIA local TV news station reported that votingmachines gave voters the option of selecting a GreenParty ballot, although there were no Green Partycandidates. As a result, 22 voters wasted their votesand were essentially disenfranchised. 379Bannock County, IDAccording to the Casper Star Tribune, ES&S scannersfailed to recognize the ink that the vendor instructedcounty election officials to use for ballot marking.Once the uncounted ballots were identified, pollworkers marked each ballot with ink that would berecognized by the scanner and fed them into themachine for a second time. 380St. Clair County, ILThe Bellville News-Democrat reported that a mayoralcandidate contested the results of a mayoral race inSt. Clair County after “a voting machine malfunctioncaused several hundred ballots to go uncounted.” Nofurther information was given regarding themalfunction. 381St. Clair County, ILIn the village president race in St. Clair County,according to the Bellville News-Democrat, 400uncounted ballots affected the results of the race. Theorigin of the uncounted ballots: “‘There were twomachines at [a certain] polling place, one with thetouch screens for people with disabilities and opticalscan everybody else votes in,’ [County Clerk Bob]Delaney said. ‘When voting was done, we uploadedboth cards to be counted. But for some reason (thecomputer) did not count optical scan.’” It wasunclear why. 382DuPage County, ILThe Chicago Daily Herald reported that during aspecial election, the Diebold (Premier) touch-screenelection machine had the word “Republican”flashing at the beginning of each ballot as though the66 | Brennan Center for Justice