April 15, 2011 – 11:44 am
Notes from the Senate Judiciary Hearing- April 14, 2011
A Senate bill to require the printing of a paper receipt from our existing iVotronics was discussed. The Beaufort County election director addressed the Senators and stated that adding a printer to our existing system would be very expensive, possibly costing over 15 million dollars. In addition, it would create one more layer of complexity to an already complicated system, and with paper jams and technical problems, would create longer lines for voters.
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Council of Governments agrees to ask Legislature to investigate after problems plagued several counties
Frank Heindel, a Charleston businessman, has spent months investigating the machines’ performance, and he outlined his findings Monday to the board of the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments.
Heindel talked about recent problems with voting tabulations in Colleton, Lancaster and Richmond counties. “It’s not all the same problem,” he said. “There’s a variety of different things going wrong.”
January 30, 2011 – 3:00 am
The State newspaper here and the Columbia Free Times here both have reports about over 1000 missing electronic ballots in Richland County found by Frank Heindel, Chip Moore, Duncan Buell and Eleanor Hare in their audit of the November, 2010 election.
The South Carolina League of Women Voters has posted a more detailed report prepared by us.