2022 South Carolina midterm elections voter information

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Midterm Election Day is sort of right here! Voters throughout the state will make selections for a lot of key races, together with for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. Home, and even two proposed state constitutional modification. And there are additionally loads of native races for college board, county council, and native poll referendums. 

South Carolina residents registered to vote might accomplish that throughout the early voting interval or on the precise election day — Tuesday, November 8.

WLTX has compiled a information of continuously requested questions, utilizing data out there from the South Carolina Election Fee’s web site scvotes.gov.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 8, 2022. You possibly can vote on that day, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. at your native precinct listed in your Voter ID card. In case you are in line at 7 p.m., you’ll be allowed to vote.

You can even choose to vote early throughout the 2022 Common Election Early Voting Interval, starting 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, October 24, via Saturday, November 5 (closed Sunday, October 30). Try scvotes.gov to seek out the closest early voting middle to you or have a look at the listing of areas beneath within the Midlands.

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: Calhoun County Council Chambers,102 Courthouse Drive, Suite 110, Saint Matthews, SC 29135
• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 411 Sundown Drive, Manning, SC 29102

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 411 Sundown Drive, Manning, SC 29102

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 315 S. Congress Road, Winnsboro, SC 29180

• Camden Metropolis Enviornment: 420 Broad Road, Camden, SC 29020

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 101 Gregg Road, Bishopville, SC 29010
• Lynchburg Police Division Constructing: 106 Foremost Road, Lynchburg, SC 29080

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 605 West Foremost Road, Room 130, Lexington, SC 29072
• Midlands Technical Faculty (B & L Campus): 423 Faculty Road, Batesburg-Leesville, SC 29070
• Midlands Technical Faculty (Harbison Campus): 7300 Faculty Road, Irmo, SC 29063
• Pelion Department Library: 206 Pine Road, Pelion, SC 29123
• West Columbia Group Heart: 754 B. Avenue, West Columbia, SC 29169

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 1872 Wilson Highway, Newberry SC, 29108

• Orangeburg County Council Chambers: 1437 Amelia Road, Orangeburg, SC 29115
• North Problem Heart – North Household Group College: 4583 Savannah Hwy, North, SC 29112
• Vance Senior Heart: 10304 Previous Quantity Six Freeway, Vance, SC 29163

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 702 Batesburg Freeway, Saluda, SC 29138

• County Voter Registration and Elections Workplace: 141 North Foremost Road, Sumter, SC 29150
• FJ DeLaine Elementary College: 5355 Cane Savannah Highway, Wedgefield, 29168

You could find all different early voting websites statewide right here.

Be sure your voter registration is up-to-date on-line at data.scvotes.gov the place you’ll be able to test your private data, the situation of your voting precinct, and which voting districts you might be in.

After coming into your data at data.scvotes.gov, you’ll be able to click on on the button on the backside of the window and consider the pattern poll you’ll use whenever you forged your vote. 

Your poll is tailor-made to your particular data and site and due to this fact might differ from your pals’ or member of the family’s pattern poll in the event that they stay in a distinct space of South Carolina. All statewide workplaces — governor, legal professional normal, and many others. — would be the identical on all ballots, however county council or native fee seats will range on the poll.

When voting in individual, both voting early or on Election Day, you’ll be requested to point out one of many following photograph IDs at your polling place:

• SC Driver’s License
• SC Division of Motor Automobiles ID Card (consists of SC Hid Weapons Allow)
• SC Voter Registration Card with Picture
• Federal Army ID (consists of all Division of Protection photograph IDs and the Division of Veterans Affairs Advantages card)
• US Passport

Polls open at 7 a.m. on Election Day, November 8, and shut at 7 p.m. In case you are in line to vote at 7 p.m., you’ll be allowed to vote.

Failsafe voting permits voters who’ve moved — however did not replace their tackle — to replace their tackle on election day and vote. The method is out there to voters within the following conditions:

• Voter strikes from one tackle to a different inside the identical precinct — full a change of tackle kind on the precinct and vote a full poll
• Voter strikes from one precinct to a different inside the identical county — EITHER go to your earlier polling place and vote a restricted, failsafe poll containing federal, statewide and countywide workplaces and report your up to date tackle OR go to your county voter registration workplace, full a change of tackle kind and vote a full poll
• Voter strikes from one South Carolina county to a different inside 30 days of an election — EITHER go to your polling place in your earlier county and vote a restricted, failsafe poll containing federal, statewide and countywide workplaces and report your up to date tackle OR go to your present county voter registration workplace, full a change of tackle kind and vote a full poll 

Failsafe voting applies to municipal elections, with one exception — the voter will need to have resided inside the municipality for 30 days or extra previous to the election to be eligible to vote.

Sure. There’s room on the poll for write-in votes.

On a touch-screen poll, a candidate’s identify could be written in by touching the “write-in” area underneath the suitable workplace. A keyboard ought to pop up and you’ll enter the candidate

On a paper poll, write within the candidate’s identify underneath the suitable workplace utilizing both a pen or pencil after which darken the oval subsequent to the write-in line on the poll. Stickers, stamps or decals with the candidate’s identify should not permitted.