Beadle County Auditor Jill Hanson was a member of a task force, recently assembled by South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant to look into the cause of ballot counting issues in Davison County during the primary election this spring. The Ballot Counting Task Force met two weeks ago and Hanson says she learned a lot from it…
Hanson says being a part of the Task Force was eye-opening and is leading to guidelines for auditors to follow…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/09/ballotcount2.mp3|titles=ballotcount2]Along the lines of election ballots, Friday was the first day of absentee voting, and Hanson says quite a few have taken advantage of the opportunity to vote early…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/09/ballotcount3.mp3|titles=ballotcount3]Officially the Ballot Counting Task Force determined that human error was responsible for a problem with a vote counting machine in Mitchell during the June primary.