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Vote Supression In South Carolina, Illustrated

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

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Many polling places closed on primary day

Many South Carolina voters will be sent to new polling places on presidential primary day, as one-fifth of regular state polling places will be closed.

The closed polls are the result of a state law passed last year turning control of the Jan. 19 Republican primary and Jan. 26 Democratic primary over to the South Carolina State Election Commission.

About 400 of 2,200 polling places will be merged, according to Chris Whitmire, spokesman for the State Election Commission.

The change was meant to ensure a professionally run election, with the use of state resources and electronic voting machines. But in trying to limit costs, the Legislature required local election officials to merge some precincts into one polling place.

This year?s changes have been approved by the U.S. Justice Department, and local officials said they have worked to limit the inconvenience. But the result, many observers said, is that voters will be surprised to find their normal polling place closed on primary day. ...

I blogged about vote suppressions issues in South Carolina previously, here.

Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on January 13, 2008 (boomark / email).