South Carolina’s Secretary of State didn’t know banned machines counted votes
COLUMBIA, SC – In his “unofficial” reaction to U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge’s claim that South Carolina purchased “awful” electronic voting equipment Ohio was dumping, Secretary of State Mark Hammond inserted words she didn’t use when he said the state didn’t buy “decertified” Ohio equipment. His words are also concerning since the South Carolina Elections Commission recently accepted bids from vendors to replace its current inventory of security-flawed electronic voting equipment the state purchased from Elections Solutions & Software (ES&S) in 2003; and installed in the state’s 46 counties between 2004 and 2005. The relationship between Global Election Systems. Diebold, Premier…
