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November2002October 2008March 2009ES&S:M650PremierAccuVote-TSXPremierAccuVote-OSTexasUtahVirginiaES&S. 492Scurry County, TXAn unanticipated landslide victory for twoRepublican commissioner candidates caused pollworkers to question the results. According to theHouston Chronicle, a chip in the ES&S M650contained an incorrect ballot program. After ES&Ssent a new chip and the county officials counted thevotes by hand, the opposing Democratic candidatesactually won by a large margin. 493Washington County, UTAccording to the Spectrum, “Washington CountyClerk Cal Robison said a technical glitch slowed thevoting early in the morning….The machines werefixed within a couple of hours.” No furtherinformation was given. 494Fairfax County, VAThe Washington Post reported that, in FairfaxCounty, an electronic “voting machine broke down”at the end of the election day while “officials weretallying” votes. 495November2008November2006AdvancedVoting SystemsWinVoteAVS:WinVoteVirginiaVirginiaAccording to the Reston Connection, the machinetotals initially showed 364 more ballots recorded thanwere actually cast. Election officials had to run the“ballot images” generated by the machine and handcountthem in order to obtain accurate vote totals. Itwas unclear what caused the problem. 496For more on this incident, see case study 11 on pages 20- 21 of this report.Fairfax County, VAAccording to CNN, “General Registrar RokeySuleman said a handful of memory cards did notwork when machines were started this morning ….He said a ‘very, very small number of machines’ wereaffected.” No further information was given. 497Fairfax County, VAAccording to Connection Newspapers, there werereports that if voters touched the screen around theU.S. Senate box, the wrong candidate would light up.Election officers told voters to make sure to use theirfingertips and to notify them of any malfunctionsthey encountered. Fairfax’s general registrar called the92 | Brennan Center for Justice