The Myrtle Beach Sun News is reporting that several voting machines are down in the area:
A computer programming error caused several electronic voting machines to not work when the polls opened at 7 a.m. today for the Republican primary, according to Sandy Martin, Horry County’s Voters Registration and Election director.
“We’re working on getting it all worked out,” Martin said at 9:15 a.m. “Most of them are up and running now. There are a few scattered precincts we haven’t got to yet.”
Martin said voters used paper ballots to cast their votes in places at precincts where electronic machines malfunctioned.”
But by 10 a.m., several people have called The Sun News to say that several precincts were out of paper ballots or running out of them.
Dan Rather gets a total “I told you so” on this.
(h/t S.C. Politics Today)
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Wow. “Several machines.” Let’s all panic.
Hopefully they get fixed before this November, or at least don’t have malfunctioning problems.