{"id":5590,"date":"2008-01-21T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2008-01-22T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T08:36:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-21-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5590","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For January 21, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Horry Co South Carolina is now reporting that they had more problems than reported on Saturday. It seems that not only could they not get 80% of the machines to start up on Saturday morning but many of those same machines could not be turned off when the polls closed. It seems that the internal clocks were set for the ES&S iVotronics to be closed out next Saturday evening following the Democratic primary. Those machines had to be taken to the county election office and the clocks had to be changed. The county was still counting ballots late on Sunday. I had a reporter call me from one SC newspaper. He asked how I felt about this delay in getting the results out. My response was that quick and early results were for the media not for the voter. We want our votes counted accurately, not quickly. It is, in part, the media that have driven election officials to waste our tax money on the purchase of machines that give some result as quickly as possible upon poll closure. It may not be an accurate number but it is a number that can be reported. Tomorrow the Republican South Carolina primary will be forgotten as all eyes turn to the next primary and the next potential disaster. …<\/p>\n

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