COLUMBIA, SC — This week South Carolina House Republicans continue their attack on voting rights. In the 2020 election, a historic number of voters cast ballots, including 1.3 million who voted in-person absentee and by mail.
Yesterday, Brandon Newton introduced an amendment to an elections bill that will ban ballot drop boxes and allow third party vendors, like the “Cyber Ninjas” in Arizona, to verify election results.
This afternoon, the Judiciary Committee will take up a bill created by Jay Lucas that cuts the window of in-person absentee voting in half, from 30 days to two weeks before an election. The bill also reduces the number of South Carolinians eligible to vote early. This is part of a concerted effort by Republicans across the country to sow doubt in our election systems and make it more difficult to vote.
“If our election systems are as poorly managed and insecure as Republicans are saying, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division should immediately open an investigation into which Republican House members and Senators were fraudulently elected,” said SCDP Chair Trav Robertson, Jr. “Why are Republicans spending this year drawing gerrymandered districts, banning ballot boxes, and slashing absentee voting? They are afraid to run in fair races.”
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