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November2008SequoiaImageCastNew YorkTompkins County, NYAccording to the Ithaca Journal, a ballot-markingmachine at a polling place froze during theinstruction phase and could not be used for the restof the voting period.November2008ES&SModel 100North Carolina“Democratic Tompkins County Board of ElectionsCommissioner Stephen DeWitt said the problem liesin a software glitch that causes the machine to freezeup during the instructions segment. The machine atTitus Towers seems to be the only one with thatproblem, he said.” 435Craven County, NCAccording to the Sun Journal, local officialsdiscovered that at least 3,643 more votes were castthan originally reported in unofficial election results.“The additional votes surfaced when state electionstechnician Rosemary Blizzard worked with theCraven County elections director . . . to ‘read themedia cards back into the tabulation software,’Blizzard said. . . .“‘There was an error on a flash card at the main onestopsight. Partial results downloaded election nightfrom that site. I believe there were also some dataentry errors which unfortunately happen,’ Blizzardsaid.‘That's why the results are unofficial until after thecanvass.November2008November2008ES&SModel 100ES&SModel 100North CarolinaNorth CarolinaBlizzard “said there will probably be at least 54 morevotes to add to results once the audit is complete.”The results of the race were not affected by theadditional votes. 436Forsyth County, NCThe Winston-Salem Journal reported that“a mistake caused the software to omit results for the74th N.C. House District in . . . two precincts.”Officials eventually discovered the error and fixed it.It was not clear what caused the “mistake.” 437Rockingham County, NCAccording to GoDanRiver.com, after votes had beenentered into the central tabulator, votes from onlyone of the five precincts registered. It was unclearBrennan Center for Justice | 79