SC Primary: Turnout high in downtown Greenville - 2:27 p.m.

[ucrdem]

Voter turnout was particularly high in downtown Greenville on Saturday during the Democratic Primary.

At 2 p.m., 31 percent of voters in Greenville's precinct 10 had visited Springfield Baptist Church and cast a ballot.

That's well above the 2008 Democratic primary turnout record for Greenville County, about 19 percent.

That number is an outlier statewide.

"Overall, it would be low or light – slow," said Chris Whitmire at the State Election Commission.


Longtime Hillary Clinton supporter Georgia Gamble cast her vote in the South Carolina Presidential Preference Primary on Saturday.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2016/02/27/live-blog-south-carolina-democratic-primary/80987478/
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[dchill]

1. Great! Greenville is YUUUUGE for Bernie!

[DCBob]

2. Look like a good day for Madam Secretary!

Can wait to hear the numbers.

[Agschmid]

3. It's going to be an interesting night!

[ucrdem]

4. Election night reporting - link to results:

http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/59277/160232/en/summary.html

Precincts don't begin reporting until 7 p.m.


to Agnosticsherbet

[morningfog]

5. High turnout anywhere is good for us all.

[ucrdem]

6. Some crossing over it appears:

More former Republicans vote for Sanders - 1:25 p.m.

Scott and Phyllis Singleton said they usually vote Republican, but they went to Pendleton Street Baptist Church in Easley to cast their ballots Saturday for Bernie Sanders.

Their son, Hunter, a graduate student at Winthrop, came home to vote for the first time – also for the senator from Vermont.

Phyllis, a 50-year-old homemaker, said she likes Sanders, “Because he’s for everybody. All people. For the little man.”

For her husband, it was more of a vote against Hillary Clinton – and against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2016/02/27/live-blog-south-carolina-democratic-primary/80987478/

[Hortensis]

9. Excellent! Let's just hope they stay for November too.

[No Vested Interest]

7. Is it true that a South Carolinian can vote in the Dem primary today (Saturday) and then

go to the Republican primary on Tuesday and change their registration to Republican and vote in the Republican primary on Tuesday?
Can both Dems & Repubs do this?
And who would benefit most from this?
Could Repubs undermine the SC Dem primary?

[ucrdem]

8. That's a good question.

The answer is probably, probably. But there are so many ways to fiddle with elections I think Dems usually just count on numerical advantages to overcome GOP cheating. I think that was Barack's strategy.

p.s. any SCers know the answer?

[NWCorona]

10. No. The primary is open to anyone who didn't participate in the Republican primary.

[No Vested Interest]

11. Will the judges at the Dem primary have a record of who voted in the Republican

primary?

[NWCorona]

12. I doubt it.

[Barack_America]

13. Turnout apparently high in Charleston and very low in Richland.

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article62622742.html

[ucrdem]

14. (from your link...) 4:30 p.m.

It has been a good day for Charleston County Board of Elections Director Joe Debney.

Voter turnout has been stronger than expected, but problems have been few and far between, Debney said. "It has been a great, quiet day in terms of phone calls and what not," Debney said.

"In terms of turnout, it's been really good. I was worried that it wouldn't be, but it has been really good." Debney said it appears some numbers "look like they're on par with the '08 data." "I think it's going really, really well today," he said.

However, Sam Selph struggles to find a word that would adequately describe how bad turnout in Richland County has been today.

"It's just terribly low based on everything that I've seen and I've heard," said Selph, Richland County's Elections Commission director.

Richland County went for Democrat Barack Obama in each of the past two elections and has gained population since 2012.

Nonetheless, some precincts in "Democratic strongholds" early this afternoon reported turnout numbers in the low triple digits, and Selph doesn't think he had heard of any precinct with more than 400 voters by midday Saturday.

Selph said he wouldn't expect more than 40,000 votes in Richland County, down from the more than 63,000 Richland County residents who cast votes in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Selph said he has been surprised at the number of residents who don't know where to vote, given the Elections Commission's efforts since late last year to spread that information.

"There's been a lot of that today," Selph said.
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not sure what this augurs but in NV, Clinton did better in Vegas than in the less populated desert districts. Anyway thanks for the update!