A red flag for upcoming elections: South Carolina debut's of new voting system plagued by problems
SalonWhen election officials in Richland County, South Carolina, where the state capital of Columbia is located, opened 152 polling places for the Democratic Presidential Preference Primary on February 29, they held their breath. The question is what caused it," said Duncan Buell, one of five Richland County Voter Registration and Elections Commission members and chair of the University of South Carolina's computer science and engineering department in Columbia. But South Carolina's statewide debut of a new voting system — the first state among a handful to do so in 2020 — is more than a cautionary tale. She helped an elderly man who came in after 10 a.m. "So, slide it in, and it will pull it in for you," Killoy said, after handing him a long narrow sheet of paper to put into a slot in a ballot-marking console — ES&S's ExpressVote — that was dominated by a large touch screen. On primary day, February 29, Buell said that it was too early to call anyone to get a larger perspective about the statewide debut of ES&S's new system — not on an Election Day.
History of this topic
Discover Related