The 2024 general election is quickly approaching, but South Carolina voters will not have to wait until Election Day to cast a ballot. Governor Henry McMaster signed a law in May 2022 that replaces in-person absentee voting with an early in-person voting period for the two weeks leading up to election days.

South Carolina Republicans control the governor's mansion. They have a supermajority in the House. And they are one vote away from one in the Senate.

The deadline to vote in the November 5 general election is here. South Carolina voters were given more time to register in the wake of Hurricane Helene and the damage it brought to the state in late September.

The South Carolina Democrat Party sued to extend the deadline saying power outages from Hurricane Helene prevented many from registering

South Carolina Judge Daniel Coble extended the voter registration deadline by eight days at a virtual hearing Friday due to Hurricane Helene. In-person, online and mail-in applications will now be

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The South Carolina Coalition for Voter Participation is doing its part to ensure that Lowcountry voters turn out on Election Day. The group said it would provide free transportation to voters in eight South Carolina counties who need a ride to the polls on Nov.

Once you have your absentee voting application, it must be filled out and submitted by mail or in person to your county’s Voter Registration Office by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25. If you send the application through the United States Postal Service, make sure you leave plenty of time for it to arrive by the deadline.

Powerful hurricanes that wreaked havoc on wide swaths of the southeast have election officials facing the dim reality that some ballots may be lost in the mail.

For more than a year, a battle over the planned Silfab Solar plant has dominated local politics in Fort Mill and York County.

But many cities and counties across the state have ordinances that control where political signs can be located. Such rules must be included in a community’s temporary sign law since the Supreme Court found in 2015 it was a violation of the right to free speech to single out campaign signs.

Unlike Election Day, when voters must vote at their precinct’s polling place, early voters can cast their ballots at any early voting center in their county. A complete list of South Carolina’s nearly 140 early voting locations by county is available on the South Carolina Election Commission’s website.