Our purpose is to analyze the correctness of the certified votes in South Carolina.  Our goal is to improve the accuracy of the certified count by offering our expertise to assist election directors, identifying observed problems that can be mitigated by procedural changes and expose those problems with the system that cannot be eliminated.

Towards these ends we acquire from the counties by means of the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act copies of various audit files from recent elections. We write analytic tools to find that part of the audit data that confirms the certified totals and that part that reveals discrepancies between the audit data and the official results. We periodically post what we find here as well as release our findings to the public and the media. The files we use and the tools we write are freely available on this site.

Frank Heindel is a commodities trader in Charleston, SC and a citizen concerned about counting votes correctly and publicly. He enjoys tennis, inshore fishing, and using the SC Freedom of Information Act to increase transparency in government.

Eleanor Hare is an Associate Professor Emerita of Computer Science at Clemson University in Clemson, SC and on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. She is the first woman to receive a Ph.D in Computer Science from Clemson.

Duncan Buell is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, has written several papers on electronic voting, knows which Duck (Daffy, Daisy, or Donald) received the largest number of votes in the most recent election in his home county, and has assigned to his second-semester undergraduates a homework program to count the votes from November 2010 in just the way his own code has.

Chip Moore is a computer programmer of 15 years experience and an award-winning animator. Raised on Poinsett Road in Myrtle Beach between the Ocean Forest Hotel and the Pine Lakes Country Club, he lives in Cambridge, MA.