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Chaos Reigns In Richland County

LOCAL TAX HIKE, STATE HOUSE RACE UP FOR GRABS Chronic voting machine malfunctions – and the long lines those malfunctions produced – have complicated election returns in Richland County, S.C. Hanging in the balance?  The fate of a proposed sales tax increase and the outcome of one of the few…

LOCAL TAX HIKE, STATE HOUSE RACE UP FOR GRABS

Chronic voting machine malfunctions – and the long lines those malfunctions produced – have complicated election returns in Richland County, S.C.

Hanging in the balance?  The fate of a proposed sales tax increase and the outcome of one of the few competitive races for a seat in the S.C. General Assembly.

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the Associated Press erroneously reported that Democrat Joe McCulloch had defeated Republican Kirkman Finlay by a 53-47 percent margin with “100 percent” of precincts reporting in Richland County.

Take a look …

That report is inaccurate, however, as there are at least four precincts – Republican-heavy precincts, we’re told – that have yet to be counted in this race.

Will Finlay be able to overcome McCulloch’s 584-vote lead?

And will the proposed sales tax pass?

Stay tuned … we’ll update our readers as information becomes available.

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4 comments

tomstickler November 7, 2012 at 12:01 pm

The SCvotes.org website cannot even figure out that Georgetown County is in the 7th CD for their vote results website.

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Lance Riprock November 7, 2012 at 4:44 pm

Haven’t you noticed? Nobody can do a damn thing anymore. Bad schools and too many pills.

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reasonable November 7, 2012 at 7:14 pm

Rumor has it that Kirkman won. Any official word out there anywhere?

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Lewis November 7, 2012 at 10:11 pm

I have ZERO confidence in the legitimacy of any results that came out of Richland County.

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