Northampton County officials were paying close attention to the Presidential primary in South Carolina on Saturday. Their interest had nothing to do with the election itself. They were instead concerned about the ExpressVote system being used in South Carolina for the first time. This ballot marking device is very similar to Northampton County's ExpressVote XL, which had a disastrous debut last November. The County has been assured these problems were an anomaly, but is that true? Based on what happened in the Palmetto State, it appears the ExpressVote system will be fine.
There were problems getting some of the computers turned on in South Carolina, apparently because pollworkers were entering the wrong password. That problem was corrected pretty quickly. The State details what appears to be mostly minor issues with the new system. NPR also reports that "[a]s of midafternoon, primary voting throughout South Carolina appeared to be proceeding without any serious problems. There were no reports of major machine malfunctions or of other disruptions as Democrats cast ballots in about 2,300 precincts."
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The difference will be how things go in the county.
ReplyDeleteBO’s article notes, but doesn’t detail Richland county had significant number of ballot marking devices fail to open.The same problematic machine company, that courted the South Carolina executives for the South Carolina State Election commission director with trips to LasVegas won the $51 million dollar bid for the 13,000 new voting machines. South Carolina State election spokesperson Chris Whitmire said trouble with new election devices was common but they had larger number of problems inRichland County than others. That’s something that we’ll have to find out why so many didn’t work....that would be a problem in November....Any of this sound familiar yet?
ReplyDeleteMore problems. Not surprised that NPR was clueless.
ReplyDeleteGive it a rest. The problems in Richland County were resolved very quickly and were noted in my article. The machines were locked, which tells me workers were unfamiliar with the key opening it.
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ReplyDeleteI realize this must be hard for you, but this post has NOTHING to do with the campaigns or Trump. It is about voting machines. You appear to be incapable of discussing anything without bowing down to him. Stay on topic or be silent.
ReplyDeleteNorthampton County still has a lot to prove. Their arrogance in this entire voting machine affair does not inspire confidence.
ReplyDelete"Based on what happened in the Palmetto State"
ReplyDeleteWhat happened? They were watching a first use scenario and had unmentioned concerns and something happened to reassure confidence in the machine. What was it ...what happened?
They liked the outcome? What? It was by no means trouble free. So what was it?
Richland county, by no means, was trouble free.....read the
ReplyDeleteArticle on the 51 million dollar purchase and the behind the scenes deals....
I linked to and stated the problem in Richland, which was very minor. Let's face it, they worked. all of your hopes and desires to the contrary.
ReplyDeleteIt is hopeful that the results in S. Carolina are correct. Hopefully the machines are working well. There is more concern in Northampton County beyond the machines. Your friend McClure put a partisan political operative in charge of the entire election office. If that wasn't bad enough now he put another democrat political operative in the same department. What the hell is going on in there. The new person is a current partisan politico. You are asking for trust with behavior like this?
ReplyDeleteThe only partisan political operatives I see are Matt Munchie, Lee Snover and Maude Hornick. Amy Cozze, who heads the office, has given up all interest in politics.
ReplyDeleteSorry Bernie, she works for McClure and does whatever eve he wants. She ha snot given up on politics and people know it.. Maybe that is why another dem operative is now hired in the office besides Cozze. You didn't know this?
ReplyDeleteBoth this blogger and the McLure clan are protecting a bad decision and 2 million dollar investment . By allowing the machine manufacturer to use their workers to hide behind only adds to making their reasoning suspect. They and this blog refuse to acknowledge the history of concerns that exist about these machines and their manufacturer. A presidential election is the wrong time to test or retest new election technology and voter trust.
ReplyDeleteCounty Council must investigate the election office. The administration is not very transparent about the machines.
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