Election Director Eric Campbell in Colleton County has released three separate tallies of the votes in the November, 2010 election in Colleton County. The first unofficial tally, published in local Colleton County newspapers following the election, did not include 1051 absentee ballots cast on three voting terminals used in the election. The certified returns submitted by the county to the State Election Commission on November 5th contained several contests in which the sum of the candidates votes exceeded the 11,656 votes cast in the county. In a third tabulation released in December, the number of absentee votes in several races exceeded the number of absentee ballots.
Dave Munday, in the Charleston Post & Courier, here and here and Corey Hutchins here in the Columbia Free Press write about our audit of Colleton County and the numerous errors found in the tally of votes in that county in the November, 2010 election.