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It's been more than three weeks and folks in Richland County still haven't gotten to the bottom of why voting conditions were so bad in the Columbia-area county.

What is known is that there weren't enough voting machines and wait times were 3 to 6 hours, turning many people away.

Brad Warthen offers a nice roundup; read it here.

Sounds like a mess.