Poll observers reported 201 e-voting problems in the 6% of Maryland precincts that they observed. Do a little extrapolation, and that suggests there may have been over 4000 problems statewide!!! What was that the manufacturers said about how smoothly things went?
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3966Observers find 201 e-voting problems in Maryland
Grant Gross The Industry Standard 23 November 2004
Poll observers in about 6 percent of Maryland's precincts recorded 201 problems with electronic voting machines during the Nov. 2 general election, according to a report released Tuesday by TrueVoteMD.org. Poll watchers trained by the voting integrity activist group reported 42 cases of crashed e-voting machines, 37 cases of access card or encoder problems, and 30 screen malfunctions, according to the report. More than 400 TrueVoteMD poll watchers observed the elections at 108 of the state's 1,787 voting precincts.
TrueVoteMD poll watchers saw problems that were "easily observable" and not problems that may have happened inside the electronic voting machines, said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD. While the problems observed in the precincts where the poll watchers were stationed may not be typical of all precincts, they were likely a "small fraction" of the actual problems with e-voting machines in Maryland, Schade said.