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May 20 -- Early Childhood Issues

Coffee and conversation at 7 p.m. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. See calendar for location.

Candidates Forums

The League of Women Voters is planning Candidates Forums for those South Carolina Senate and House seats in our area that have opposition in the June 10 primaries.

May 29, 7 p.m. -- at Tri-County Technical College Anderson Campus, 511 Michelin Blvd Anderson, SC
SC Senate District 4: Roger Odachowski and Leonardo Ortiz
SC House District 8: Tom Dobbins and Charles Griffin

June 2, 6 p.m. -- at Clemson-Central library on Hwy 93
SC Senate District 2: Larry Martin and C J. Mac Martin, Jr.
SC House District 3: B. R. Skelton, Trey Whitehurst, and Jason Gale

Stay tuned for more information. We are also inviting the incumbents in Anderson County Senate District 4 and House District 8 to participate.

Immigration Consensus

The National Consensus on Immigration Issues has been completed. Read it here.

Voting Machines Used in South Carolina

Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) supplies all voting machines used in South Carolina. The voting process includes casting votes on touch-screen machines (iVotronics), collection of votes at the county level on computers (Unity), and reading of mail-in absentee votes on optical scan readers (models M100 and M650). The Pickens County system incudes all of these components.

On December 7, 2007, a report was received by the Ohio Secretary of State which evaluated all voting machines used in Ohio. The ES&S machines were among those evaluated. The report states, "Our analysis suggests that the ES&S Unity EMS, iVotronic DRE and M100 optical scan systems lack the fundamental technical controls necessary to guarantee a trustworthy election under operational conditions."

In June 2006, the League of Women Voters Convention adopted a position supporting voter-verified paper ballots, verified while the voter is still in the process of voting. These paper ballots should be the official record of the voter's intent. Routine audits of the paper ballots in randomly selected precincts should be conducted in every election.

To access materials develped by the LWV of South Carolina click here.

To learn more about the Ohio Report, click here,

An article, Can you count on voting machines?, appearing January 6, 2008, in the New York Times, presents some of the high lights in the history of voting machines. At the end of the article, possible problems posed by iVotronics in Pennsylvania are discussed.

Closer to home, an article in the January 6, 2008, Greenville News, Ohio bans voting machines used here, was also picked up by AP. Another article, South Carolina officials see no problems with touch-screen voting machines appeared in the January 13, 2008, Anderson Independent-Mail.

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