Another South Carolina Election Requiring Photo IDs Goes Smoothly


 


Unburying the lede:


 


“Every one of the more than 700 voters presented valid ID and none cast a provisional ballot.”


 


The Woodruff mayoral election was the first in Spartanburg County since the photo ID requirement went into effect, but not the first 100% success for South Carolina’s new voter ID law.


 


The state held its first voter ID election in the Town of Branchville in Orangeburg County. All of the 205 people who voted in that election had a photo ID, Andino said, and no one requested an exemption. “


 


Statewide, only about 1,100 photo identification cards have been issued under the new law.  “The actual number of voters who have requested the cards is lower, because the 1,100 printed include duplicates made to correct errors and test cards.”