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South Carolinians showed up in droves on the first day of early voting for the general election – with daily records falling by the wayside and additional surges in turnout likely forthcoming.
South Carolina easily shattered its single-day record for early voting on Monday (October 21, 2024) – recording a staggering 125,913 ballots cast, according to data from SCVotes.gov. That massive one-day figure eclipsed totals from the entire early voting period held prior to the June 2024 partisan primary elections – which spanned nine days – and was more than half the 205,099 ballots cast ahead of the GOP ‘First in the South’ presidential primary in February.
This record-setting deluge of voters more than tripled the previous one-day early voting record of 39,804 ballots cast – set on February 22, 2024.
Are you a visual learner? Here’s a look at the data courtesy of our inimitable research director, Jenn Wood…
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Early voting began Monday and is scheduled to run through Saturday, November 2, 2024. With the exception of next Sunday (October 27, 2024), early voting centers are open from 8:30 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. EDT. Voters will be asked to present a valid photo identification when checking in to vote.
Where should you go to cast your ballot? SCVotes.gov has got you covered…
Monday’s early voting surge represented approximately 3.7 percent of the Palmetto State’s 3.42 million registered voters – and nearly 5 percent of the 2.53 million voters who showed up at the polls in the last presidential election.
And again, that’s just one day of early voting…
Sources familiar with the data from Tuesday (October 22, 2024) say the numbers could potentially be even higher, although we won’t know precise ballot counts until they are officially released tomorrow.
South Carolina is obviously not a contested state in the 2024 presidential election – or any other recent national election, for that matter. No Democrat has carried the Palmetto State since Jimmy Carter did it in 1976.
Count on FITSNews to keep our audience in the loop on these totals as they are updated over the course of the coming week-and-a-half. Also, count on us to share any insights as to what the surge in early voting could mean for the handful of contested races across the Palmetto State.
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Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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Remember Republicans, follow the mandate from your leader Dementia J Trump and vote on JANUARY 5TH, just like he said.
When you vote on January 5th be sure to wear your Trump sneakers, the strip mall watch you paid $100,000 for, and carry your Made In China Trump bible.
And hum YMCA whilst you’re fantasizing about Arnold Palmer’s wang. MAGA!!!
Drove by the Richland County Gubamint offices on Hardin Monday, you’d a thought they were giving out free cheese. Folks (people, not Will) were lined up all the way down the block waiting to vote. Don’t get it, why wait in line to vote early?
“Folks (people, not Will)”
Hey now, Will technically qualifies as people.
“Don’t get it, why wait in line to vote early?”
You were driving in Richland County, where voting machines mysteriously seem to malfunction on election day.
Waiting out the opening week in North Augusta.
Pray for the mental health of the leftist come Nov. 6th.
Pray for your own mental health, today.
You have TDS. Please get some help. Three Rivers is actually a mental health facility in SC. Maybe give them a call.
As you vote remember Donald Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
Hitler’s generals followed orders to kill Hitler’s political enemies and march millions of innocent Jews into death camps.
But Trump is not a Fascist.
Also remember Trump’s best friend, Putin, just had another rival Russian oligarch pushed out of the window on the tenth floor of a building, and Trump still admires him, thinks he is a genius, and has promised to give him Ukraine.
I am a 7th-generation South Carolinian, and I have never been so shocked to find that so many of my fellow South Carolinians, have no backbone, and would not stand up to a tyrant. It is shocking what MAGA Republicans have done to this state. Now they all kiss the ass of a Yankee Carpetbagger who would shove them in front of a bus for a few bitcoin. Or a dinner with Putin. Honesty, honor, and dignity are truly dead in the old South.
As I vote, I will remember that the bigger, over-arching issue in this race is beyond personalities, punchlines and sound bites; the same issue that has been in play for the last 30+ years: the choice between neo- marxist, globalist, atheistic socialism and all the moral debauchery and financial misery it has wrought upon the world, and on the other hand, the choice of a constitutional federal republic based upon individual freedom coupled with personal responsibility, free market capitalism (not crony capitalism), a strong military that stays out of foreign wars not in our interest, national pride, and traditional, broad-based Judeo-Christian values (which also happen to align with quite a few core Muslim values).
PS: Jackson: my roots in SC go back to 1787
“and on the other hand, the choice of a constitutional federal republic based upon individual freedom coupled with personal responsibility, free market capitalism (not crony capitalism), a strong military that stays out of foreign wars not in our interest, national pride, and traditional, broad-based Judeo-Christian values (which also happen to align with quite a few core Muslim values).”
That’s a lot of words to describe a choice that isn’t on the ballot.
Well great, since Trump is none of those things. and he is the biggest crony capitalist ever to hold the office of President. Not to mention he is a Fascist, who admires Hitler. But you could have a point. I guess using the military against US citizens is staying out of foreign wars.
As for socialism and communism, there are no socialists or communists in the United States government. Under Biden, we have a record-high stock market, a record-high GDP, near record-low unemployment, and we are producing more oil than at any point in our history. If we stop exporting oil we will be wholly self-sufficient. The US economy is the envy of the rest of the world.
As for foreign wars that are not in our interest, I agree. But we are not in any foreign wars that are not in our interest, and Joe Biden is probably the most Christian President we have had since Jimmy Carter.
Our nation needs normalcy. A President who is not out to fleece the nation and turn our country into something it has never been before. A President we know will not try to “rule with an iron fist.” A president who does not use Nazi slogans like, “the enemy within” and vermin to describe the people who oppose him. There is only one choice for that and it a’int Donald Trump.
My ancestors arrived in SC from Virginia before the Revolution. Two fought in the Revolution.