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February2008November2006SequoiaAVC AdvantageSequoia:AVC AdvantageNew JerseyNew Jerseyturning off the machines and thereby deactivatingthem.” The other eight had to be replaced due to a“software malfunction”⎯Casciano said ““[b]ychecking further into it, we have found no evidencethat we think triggered it. So we’re blaming it on thesystem. A software malfunction.’” 426Hudson County, NJThe Star-Ledger reported that some election workersfailed to take cartridges from individual ballotingmachines before election officials officially sealed themachines. The election results were thereforedelayed. 427Passaic, Paterson, Scotch Plains, and NorthBergen Counties, NJFebruary2008June 2008AvanteVote-TrakkerES&SModel 100New JerseyNew MexicoWABC-TV New Jersey reported that the USAttorney for New Jersey dispatched investigators toaddress complaints of voting machines that werepreventing voters from casting ballots for theRepublican Senate candidate. Some reported thattheir ballot was pre-voted in favor of the Democraticincumbent, while others said the machine would notregister their selections. 428Warren County, NJAccording to the Express-Times, various electronicvoting machines stopped working in Warren County,apparently because of an election official errorregarding the programming of the machine. 900voters were forced to use emergency ballots. 429Curry County, NMAccording to the Clovis News Journal, “countyofficials reported to the [Curry County Canvass]board that memory cards — used to transfer talliesfrom the ballot machines to a computer —experienced corruption issues that rendered themunusable.March 2008ES&SModel 100New Mexico“However, staff were able to bypass the problembecause those same voting machines generated papertape printouts, which they were able to manuallycount and tally.” 430Various Counties, NMVarious counties in New Mexico, the Associated Pressreported, experienced problems with the memoryBrennan Center for Justice | 77