SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Early voting is being impacted across South Dakota Friday afternoon.
KELOLAND News received reports of issues with in-person absentee voting at noon Friday and confirmed a statewide issue with South Dakota’s Total Vote system.
Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson confirmed the Total Vote system was down and this was preventing them from checking voters in. She said she has been in contact with the Secretary of State’s office and that they are working on a solution.
Lines of people wanting to vote in-person absentee at the Minnehaha County Admin building are starting to grow. Voters standing in line to vote in Minnehaha County have told KELOLAND News they have been waiting longer than an hour and half because of the downed system.
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KELOLAND News confirmed this was a statewide issue, speaking with former Secretary of State and current Charles Mix County Auditor Jason Gant, who said he was also aware of the outage.
Gant told KELOLAND News that Charles Mix County has their voter list printed out and are able to continue with absentee voting with backup paper ballots. He said this is a busy day for the state’s computer system and added that he expects the issue to be fixed soon.
Absentee in-person voting is also delayed in Lincoln County.
According to the latest numbers for the secretary of state’s website, 97,333 absentee ballots have been received as of Friday, Oct. 25.
KELOLAND News has reached out to the South Dakota Secretary of State’s office. We’ll update this story with any information received.
Election Day is set for Tuesday. Monday is the final day to vote absentee in-person.
This is a developing story.
