S.C. Voters Casting Ballots on Machines Currently Under Government Audit

Source: Free-times.com

Voters across South Carolina are casting their ballots today on a system of touch-screen voting machines currently being audited by the S.C. Legislative Audit Council, the investigative oversight arm of the state Legislature.

The iVotronic touch-screen machines are under review at the behest of Republican Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell, who asked for an investigation when he was the Senate’s president pro tem.

South Carolina set a new record this year for early absentee votes cast, according to election officials. But some people voting today have complained of long lines and machines that aren’t working.

“Totally disorganized, broken machines, no instructions, getting yelled at for not knowing things nobody told us,” said voter Laurel Posey in a Facebook post in response to a Free Times query about voting day experiences.

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Audit Council investigators are evaluating the machines, reviewing the adequacy and appropriateness of the training of election officials and evaluating alternatives to the machines. They’re also looking into whether poll workers are trained properly.

“We’ve done a lot of the work … the majority of the field work,” a LAC official said today about the audit, adding that a report is expected in February. “We’re in sort of the wrap-up phase to a certain extent.”

The official said one of the issues they are looking at is whether the machines record votes properly.

“With any machine there are always good things and bad things,” the official said.

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