COLUMBIA, S.C. — True early voting in South Carolina appears likely to become a reality this year.
The House and Senate on Wednesday approved elections bills that add two weeks of early in-person voting, establish a set number of early voting sites in each county and authorize election officials to begin examining and tabulating absentee votes before Election Day.
The popular legislation had appeared dead just a few weeks ago because of the Senate’s insistence on including a provision giving the body say-so over the governor’s appointments to the state elections board, which the House and Gov. Henry McMaster would not entertain.
