South Carolina is a very diverse state with a history of segregation and voter suppression
South Carolina is a very diverse state with a history of segregation and voter suppression. While record breaking voter turnout was expected, last week's Republican South Carolina presidential primary held reports that voters were being turned away from the polls due to malfunctioning voting machines in Horry County. "Human error" put the machines offline in 80 percent of the county's precincts during Saturday's voting.
Because South Carolina voters can choose which primary to vote in, the Republican primary's bad weather and voting woes yielded the question of whether the machine malfunctions would be either a boost to the Democratic Primary voter turnout or cause voter concern and apathy. Additionally, the historical context of South Carolina's primary could also drive up voter turnout. Before polls opened at 7am in South Carolina, it was predicted that more than 300,000 South Carolina Democratic voters would cast their ballot in the first-in-the-south presidential primary election. In actuality, a record of 532,227 Democratic voters came out to vote in South Carolina with 431,000 Republicans having voted in South Carolina the week before. Election reform is an issue that our politicians cannot afford to avoid. While this was a relatively impressive turnout in South Carolina for Democrats, how record breaking is it when in a state with 2.5 million registered voters only a combined 38% of eligible voters cast their ballot.
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While record breaking voter turnout was expected in the first-in-the-south Primary, South
While record breaking voter turnout was expected in the first-in-the-south Primary, South Carolina's Republican presidential primary held reports that voters were being turned away from the polls due to malfunctioning voting machines in Horry County. "Human error" put the machines offline in 80% of the county's precincts during Saturday's voting. We talked with Carol Fowler, Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, about how the machine malfunctions in South Carolina's Republican primary may affect January 26th's Democratic Primary.
Carol Fowler also shares her views on whether America's voting system is broken and what can be done to help fix it.
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