Three SD counties will vote on banning ballot tabulator machines, requiring hand-counting

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Three SD counties will vote on banning ballot tabulator machines, requiring hand-counting

Three South Dakota counties will ask voters during the June 4 primary if they should ban the use of tabulator machines in future local elections. If the measures pass, the auditor’s offices in each county would have to hand-count ballots in the Nov. 5 general election and thereafter. The votes — in Gregory, Haakon and Tripp counties — were forced by citizen-initiated petitions at the county level. Petitioners say they want to ban tabulators …