Candidate for South Congaree Town Council files appeal with the Lexington County Election and Voter Registration Commission over improprieties in Tuesday’s election

Lexington, SC 04/04/2024

(HERE NEWS) – Bobby Porter, a candidate for South Congaree’s Town Council in last Tuesday’s Municipal Election and former member of that council, says that he has filed an appeal to that election’s results. Porter said he did so after he and his wife stopped by a local restaurant to pick up some food after the polls closed and was approached by several citizens of the town that said the polling machine they were told to use did not include his name on the ballot. He was also told that 11 voters were also turned away from the polls because they were told that not enough of their homes were in the town to permit them to cast a ballot. These voters apparently told Porter that they had a long history of voting in the town’s elections and had South Congaree on their voter registration cards in the spot were the card tells a voter what elections they can vote in and where they should vote when they do. Porter said before filing the appeal that if you look at the polling machines and their records from Tuesday’s election, it shows that most machines indicated very thin margins between the candidates. One machine, however, reflected a much larger margin between himself and the other candidates. “I certainly don’t want to be a bad sport,” Porter said after filing the appeal, “however, the probability of such a large number of people who didn’t want me to serve all using that one machine just seems very improbable.”