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October 2008May 2008March 2008March 2008November2006ES&SiVotronicHart InterCiviceSlateHart InterCiviceSlateES&SModel 100Diebold:TS-R6TexasTexasTexasTexasTexassoftware.” 482Palo Pinto County, TXAccording to the Mineral Wells Index, “[a]t least twoPalo Pinto County residents say they experiencedearly voting problems when the touch-screen votingmachines they used kept switching their straightpartyvote from Democratic to Republican. 483Cass County, TXThe Atlanta Citizens Journal reported that an “error”allowed voters who did not live in District 1 to votefor the District’s city council. City Manager MikeAhrens told the paper that the mistake was made bythe manufacturer, which failed to program themachines to restrict voting in the District 1 electionto voters who live in the district. According toAhrens, the company admitted fault. 484Travis County, TXThere were delays in voting at one polling location,the Daily Texan reported, after “[a] techniciandiscovered that the machine responsible for printingout access codes for voters was broken. Votingresumed about 10 a.m. after the machine was shutdown and replaced with a new one.” Travis CountyClerk Dana DeBeauvoir told the paper that her officehad received reports of broken machines from otherprecincts, as well. 485Angelina County, TXAccording to the Lufkin Daily News, a “programmingerror” caused the central tabulator to be unable toread the cards containing the count data. “‘Eachmachine will only take 10 precincts,’ [Acting TaxAssessor Thelma] Sherman said. ‘The precinctnumbers labeled on the cards did not match theinformation inside the card, and the machines wouldnot accept them. We had to go back and start fromscratch, physically counting ballots at times.’” 486El Paso County, TXEl Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez told KFOX-TV News that 16 people complained that a vote caston their touch-screen ballot registered to the wrongcandidate. Five of the people called Rodriguez’s officeto complain. Eleven others called a local radio showto complain. 48790 | Brennan Center for Justice