Report: Problems plague primary vote

COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Balloting was underway Saturday in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary with voting machines reportedly failing in some precincts.

Rain and snow also were falling in parts of the state, CNN reported.

Voting machines malfunctioned in all of the nearly 100 precincts in Horry County, which contains Myrtle Beach, CNN reported, noting poll workers handed out paper ballots, instead. At least one precinct ran out of the back-up ballots.

Meanwhile, Republican hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney came under attack for comments about the Confederate flag.

Ads paid for by Americans for the Preservation of American Culture, a group with headquarters in Atlanta, attacked McCain and Romney while endorsing Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday.

McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, and Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, have called the emblem divisive. Huckabee, the group's ads claim, has said flying the Confederate emblem is South Carolina's business alone, reported the Journal-Constitution.

"Gov. Huckabee understands that all the average guy with a Confederate flag on his pick-up truck is saying is, he's proud to be a Southerner," said one of the ads.

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