In Horry County, officials are training poll workers, including telling them to ask voters to show either a voter registration card, a driver’s license or an ID card issued by the S.C. Highway Department, said Sandy Martin, voter registration and elections director. This has been the same procedure Horry County Voter Registration officials have followed for years. Georgetown County will also stick to requiring pollsters to ask for one of those same three forms of identification, said Donna Mahn, county director of elections and voter registration. Hopefully South Carolina voters without one of the three required forms of ID won’t be expecting the generous “reasonable impediment” provision included in the new law, which the court delayed until 2013 due to DOJ’s months-long stalling with baseless litigation.
Wednesday’s ruling that upheld South Carolina’s photo voter ID law did not “set off an avalanche of calls from confused voters,” according to local election officials:
Business as usual for South Carolina’s county elections offices
In Horry County, officials are training poll workers, including telling them to ask voters to show either a voter registration card, a driver’s license or an ID card issued by the S.C. Highway Department, said Sandy Martin, voter registration and elections director. This has been the same procedure Horry County Voter Registration officials have followed for years. Georgetown County will also stick to requiring pollsters to ask for one of those same three forms of identification, said Donna Mahn, county director of elections and voter registration. Hopefully South Carolina voters without one of the three required forms of ID won’t be expecting the generous “reasonable impediment” provision included in the new law, which the court delayed until 2013 due to DOJ’s months-long stalling with baseless litigation.
Wednesday’s ruling that upheld South Carolina’s photo voter ID law did not “set off an avalanche of calls from confused voters,” according to local election officials: