Plan Clears Obstacles to S.C. Voting
The South Carolina Republican primary has cleared two key hurdles that will permit the vote to go forward Saturday as planned.
Democrats had challenged the primary on grounds that the GOP would violate federal law by not opening all polling places, especially in predominantly black areas.
Under a consent agreement approved Monday by a three-judge federal panel, the Republican Party addressed the challenges by pledging to work to open all state-designated polling places and to pay state election workers to staff them, if necessary. The panel had been scheduled to hear the case.
“We asked them to open the precincts and they did and we’re real pleased,” said Jim Fitts, a Williamsburg County activist who, along with Democratic state Rep. Todd Rutherford, had filed a complaint under the Federal Voting Rights Act.
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