Reply #4: SC Index poll says otherwise and then here is an AP article about their banned voting machines: [View All]

S.C. to use voting machines banned in other states
Associated Press
Monday, January 7, 2008



GREENVILLE — South Carolina election officials say they still plan to use touch-screen voting machines despite the fact that other states have banned the use of similar systems made by the same company.

Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections.

The ban was prompted by a study done for the state of Ohio in which researchers found electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or handheld electronic devices such as Palm Treos.

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"It's very difficult to get evidence that somebody tampered with the vote if you have no way of knowing what the vote was before they tampered," said Eleanor Hare, a computer scientist who participated in a study of the machines by the South Carolina League of Women Voters.

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http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2008/jan/07/s_c_use_voting_machines_banned_other_sta26854/