House budget plan includes $6M for election agency

Published March 15, 2013 10:04pm ET



COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina State Election Commission would get about $5.6 million in one-time money to buy laptops that can speed up precinct voting lines and to start saving for a future replacement of voting machines under the House budget plan.

The money is part of $113 million that the budget proposal, approved this week, distributes from the current fiscal year’s rainy day fund.

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