PFAW Foundation's staff, our outstanding nationwide volunteers and the entire Election Protection coalition fanned out to safeguard precincts and man the Voters' Hotline call centers on Election Day 2006. The coalition identified problems, worked with election officials of all levels to address thorny issues, and, most of all, provided voters one-to-one assistance. PFAW Foundation is proud of the job we did to protect our election and are already analyzing all we learned in order to follow up on specific problems — and seek more robust voter safeguards for 2008 and beyond.
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Here are just some of the problems we ran into
on Election Day 2006:
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
- There were widespread problems with voting machines and confusion implementing the state's photo ID requirement, Election Protects reports.
Washington State
Illinois
- An election judge failed to show up in Will County, and a polling place remained closed an hour after opening time, EP reports.
- Numerous reports of machine failures and poll workers who were unable to operate voting machines in Cook County have led EP to ask officials to extend voting hours.
Florida
- There were no paper ballots while voting machines failed in one predominantly African American Deerfield Beach precinct, keeping the polling place from opening for three and a half hours, EP reports. EP attorneys are working to extend voting hours.
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