January 31, 2011 – 5:02 am
This article on voting problems in Charleston and Colleton Counties appeared in the Moultrie News in late January, 2011.
“Frank Heindel of Mt. Pleasant is leading a small group of concerned citizens who are trying to audit the returns from the 2010 primary and general elections in South Carolina. Using computer technology, they are parsing the data from the audit files produced by the state’s ES&S voting system to evaluate how accurately the votes are counted and how well the voting terminals perform. He has put together a team that includes two professors of computer science from USC and Clemson and a programmer from Cambridge, MA. Mr. Heindel himself has spent about $500 on Freedom of Information Act requests to acquire audit records for the voting system from several SC counties, including Charleston and Colleton Counties. While none of the audits are complete, the preliminary results are not encouraging. read more »
October 13, 2010 – 10:07 pm
Below is the content of my Letter to the Editor of the Columbia Free Times concerning new voting technology being developed by Dr. Juan Gilbert at Clemson University.
“I greatly enjoyed your article “Gambling with Democracy” (Cover story, Oct. 6). You have done an outstanding job of gathering the many viewpoints on the iVotronic voting machines and quoting many of us who have made our views known. I was impressed that you included the history of the purchase as well as input from Duncan Buell; Steve Skardon; Brett Bursey; Frank Heindel; the Verified Voting Foundation; Vic Rawl’s attorney, Truett Nettles; Marci Andino; Chris Whitmire; S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts; S.C. Sen. Phil Leventis; S.C. Sen. John Scott; Steven Abrams; Jason Smith; and Will Moredock. Did I miss anyone?
The breadth of your research is impressive.
What is next? Are you going to drop voting machines after this? Are you interested in looking into what to do when our present voting machines are no longer practical? read more »