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cards used for the ES&S e-voting machines. The“[p]roblem-prone memory cards used in votingmachines across New Mexico are being recalled tomake certain they're working properly in preparationfor the June primary election. . . .November2004November2002Sequoia: Edge;AVC AdvantageES&S:iVotronicDanaher:ShouptronicSequoia:EdgeNew MexicoNew Mexico“Secretary of State Mary Herrera ordered a recall ofthe cards in an e-mail sent Thursday to the 33 countyclerks.” 431Bernalillo County and other counties, NMThroughout the state of New Mexico, significantlyhigh phantom vote rates and undervote rates ledvoting analysts to question the outcome of theelections in New Mexico. New Mexico led thenation in the highest undervote rates. Also, certifiedresults showed a remarkably high number ofphantom votes. 432Bernalillo County, NMAccording to the Albuquerque Tribune, local officialsdiscovered that about 12,000 early votes were notincluded in the totals produced by the voting systemafter Election Day. Apparently, the software programused to aggregate vote totals was “overwhelmed bythe data.” Reportedly, the error was confined to earlyvoting machines, on which approximately 48,000people cast their ballots.The Tribune reported that the same problem hadoccurred a few weeks earlier in Clark County,Nevada. Apparently, the technician assigned toaddress the problem in Clark County never notifiedofficials in Bernalillo County of the problem orprovided them with the software patch necessary tofix it. 433November2008SequoiaImageCastNew YorkFor more on this incident, see case study 9 on pages 17 -18 of this report.Essex County, NYLocal television station WPTZ reported that theEssex County commissioner complained of theunreliability of the vote scanning machines. “EssexCounty Elections Commissioner Lew Sanders saidbig problems with the new scanning voter machinesfor the disabled may translate into problems for allvoters come next election.” 43478 | Brennan Center for Justice