Southern State Legislative Chambers Up in 2012

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The South Carolina Senate will still be in the hands of the moderate Republicans. (i.e., The Democrats get to pick which Republican leads the Senate.) The exact results of the election however are still not known and will not be known for some time thanks to the cluster[Inks] that Richland County made of the elections.  They didn't provide enough voting machines to all the precincts, even tho they had machines left unused in their central office. (SC law requires 1 machine be available per 250 registered voters.)  One judge ordered the state election commission do a recount with the county election commission to be kept from doing more than watch.  Then the State Supreme Court blocked that recount before it could finish and had the ballots locked up pending what it would decide to do.  Richland has already missed the Friday deadline for sending their official results to the state election commission as a result.  I'm doubtful that if there is a recount that it will be completed before the state election commission is supposed to vote to certify the results on Wednesday.

This primarily affects two races, House District 75 which was a contest for an open seat that the unofficial numbers have the Republican barely winning, and a referendum on a local option sales tax to fund transportation. The referendum passed fairly handily, but opponents are calling for a revote because the illegal lack of the required number of machines may have affected turnout.