One of my regular e-mailers, Brian, is from Myrtle Beach. His account of the snafus from earlier today…

I cannot believe this county. My wife and I voted at 10:30 AM today and the single voting machine for our precinct was down. We voted on paper ballots, there were no problems. We didn’t learn until the 6:00 local news that almost all of the voting machines here failed. Then, our illustrious county board chairwoman got on TV trying to explain how no one reset the machines after the test vote last night (she couldn’t, by the way). I felt that if Huckabee could be held to a plurality of the evangelical vote that he would probably top out at 30%, and that McCain would probably be able to hold 32-33%. I was surprised that it came out as close to what I thought as it did. BTW, my wife and I both ended up voting tactically and backing McCain. It was the hardest political act I’ve ever had to do.

Let’s hear it for paper ballots!