Here is the Columbia Free Times story by Corey Hutchins
Charleston Republican Sen. Chip Campsen called the hearing “very enlightening.”
After a Senate panel heard testimony on April 14 from a handful of election watchdogs critical of the state’s system of electronic voting machines, a rather testy exchange took place in the hallway.
“You guys have a tough job,” said USC computer scientist Duncan Buell to Chris Whitmire, the spokesman for the South Carolina State Election Commission. “You have a really tough job, but you’re in deep denial about reality.”
In the November 2010 election, 1,127 ballots were not counted in Richland County.
Due to incorrect counts being certified in Colleton and Richland county, the State Election Commission will be conducting an audit of all 46 counties. Ms. Andino informed the committee they have discovered counties that have not been saving the flash card audit data that is required to be maintained for 22 months. Some counties have had to go back into warehouses to retrieve this data from the voting machines.This is the same data we have found missing when requesting vote image files and event log files.
We here assess the correctness of votes certified by the South Carolina State Election Commission because of concern about inaccurate tallies in the state and a general lack of transparency in calculating election results.