Early voting starts for first time in South Carolina Tuesday

COLUMBIA, S i9000.C.

South Carolina starts regular early voting throughout the state at last Tues.

Legislators passed as well as chief excutive signed into law some sort of bill allowing anyone in order to cast a ballot with out an excuse for the particular two weeks before Selection Day in the exact same way they would when you go to the polls.

South Carolina’s primaries are June 13 and early voting is offered every day except Weekends. The process to vote can be just the comparable to in Election Day.

Counties happen to be required to have with least one polling area open. Some smaller areas like Bamberg, Chester, Hampton and Williamsburg counties can have multiple locations, while many larger counties like Aiken, Charleston, Greenville, Lexington together with York only have 1 site at the state election office. A collection of sites is within the South Carolina Election Commission’s website.

County officials stated early voting does offer them flexibility to obtain more workers or voting machines to a web site whether it gets busy, which often is something impossible in order to do on Election Working day.

Absentee voting is continue to brought about people over the particular age of 65, having mobility issues or ailments, but those ballots have to be cast by mail.