Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:19 am
"Must have been hackers," says oppressed minority.
The State election
Commission rejected that theory on Tuesday. Chris Whitmire, spokesman for the commission, said the department has not detected even a hint of fraud or hacking in Tuesday's election and dismissed the charge that the system is not dependable.
"We've used this voting system since 2004 and it has always performed as it is designed to perform and it's been accurate and reliable," he told FoxNews.com. Whitmire said the 12,000 machines used by South Carolina have been used for "thousands of candidates" and that "no candidate has made this claim before."