Jamie Rogers    SCNow.com    19 January 2008

Florence County’s tallies were delayed because voting machines didn’t automatically close themselves out at 7 p.m., when the polls closed, county Voter Registration and Elections Director Mike Young said.
The programming from the state possibly contained elements that the machines didn’t understand, Young said, although the county elections commission will have to investigate what caused the problem.
Closing the machines required an override that involves two passwords, Young said.
So rather than having to walk poll workers through the process, elections employees performed the override at Election Central, in the former Florence County Library.