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Investigators from SysTest Labs told Brunner,“That's exactly what you'd see if someone masked aname,” and noted that voters in other precinctsreported seeing a similar grey bar with the words“candidate withdrawn.”March 2008PremierAccuVote-TSXOhioDuring its investigation of the incident, SysTestinvestigators also found election officials had nottested each voting machine to be used during theelection. 458Lucas County, OHThe Columbus Dispatch reported that “[t]here was areport from one precinct in Lucas County whereballot issues were not appearing on touch-screenvoting machines because of a problem with theencoder for the devices.”November2004November2004November2004November2008ES&S:iVotronicES&S:M550Danaher/GuardianELECTronicPremierAccuVote-TSXOhioOhioOhioPennsylvaniaAccording to the paper, “[a] technician wasdispatched to the precinct to fix the problem…[and][o]fficials do not think anyone lost the chance to voteas a result.” 459Mahoning County, OHAccording to the Vindicator and the Roanoke Times,sixteen of the 312 precincts experienced problemswith voting machines on Election Day, resulting indelays when tabulating the results. The problemswere attributed to a number of issues, includingmachine malfunctions, problems with cartridges, andhuman error. 460Sandusky County, OHThe News-Messenger reported that an election turnoutof 131% in one town indicated a tabulation error.Officials concluded that some ballots, in nineprecincts, had been counted twice. They speculatedthat some ballots had been fed through the machinemore than once. 461Franklin County, OHUSA Today reported that an unexplainedmalfunction caused the voting system to recordnearly 4,000 extra votes for George Bush when avoting machine cartridge was plugged into a laptopcomputer. 462Northumberland County, PA84 | Brennan Center for Justice