State of South Carolina
Voter Registration Information

Must register to vote 30 days before the election.
Can select party affiliation at the polls.

Can register to vote in person or obtain a mail-in application from:
County election office (see county election office list)
Division of motor vehicles
Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) offices
Medicaid offices
Food stamp offices
Women, infants and children (WIC) benefits offices
Agencies that provide services to people with disabilities

Obtain an online voter registration at:
http://www.fec.gov/votregis/vr.htm

SOUTH CAROLINA ABSENTEE BALLOTS

Who Can Absentee Vote in South Carolina?

Any registered voter in one of the following categories is eligible to receive an absentee ballot:

1. Students, their spouses and dependents residing with them. (The term "students" will mean all persons residing outside the counties of their respective residences, enrolled in an institution of learning.)
2. Members of the Armed forces and Merchant Marines, their spouses and dependents residing with them.
3. Persons serving with the American Red Cross or with the United Service Organizations (USO) who are attached to and serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, their spouses and dependents residing with them.
4. Employment. (The term employment' means those persons who by virtue of their employment obligations will be absent from their county of residence on election day during the hours the polls are open and will be unable to vote in person, or those persons who are required by their employment obligations to be at their place of employment in their county of residence during the entire hours that the polls are open (7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.) and will be unable to vote in person, and who present written certification of such obligations, signed by their employer, to the county board of registration.)
5. Physically disabled persons. (The term "physically disabled persons" will mean a person who, because of injury or illness cannot be present in person at his polling place on election day, whether physically present inside or outside his county of residence.)
6. Government employees, their spouses and dependents residing with them, who are out of their county of residence on election day.
7. Electors with a death or funeral in the family within a three day period prior to the election.
8. Persons on vacation (who because of vacation plans will be absent from a county of residence on election day).
9. Poll managers, county voter registration board members and staff, and county election commission members and staff working on election day.
10. Overseas citizens.
11. Persons attending sick or physically disabled persons.
12. Persons admitted to hospitals as emergency patients on the day of election or within a four-day period before the election.
13. Persons who will be serving as jurors in a state or federal court on election day.
14. Persons 65 years of age or older.
15. Persons confined to a jail or pre-trial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial.

How Can I Acquire an Absentee Ballot?

Any voter wishing to vote by absentee ballot must apply to the voters' registration board in his/her county of residence. Applications can be requested either by phone or by mail, and they may be submitted anytime during the calendar year in which the voter wishes to vote absentee. The registration board must receive completed applications returned by mail by 5:00 p.m., four days before the election.

However, any elector applying in person may apply for a ballot and complete the ballot at the county voters' registration board until 5:00 p.m. on the day before the election. Once the application is completed and returned, the voter will be provided with the requested ballot for the upcoming election.

How do I Return the Absentee Ballot and What is the Deadline?

Ballots can be returned to the county voters' registration board by mail or in person. In order for a ballot to be counted, it must be received by the board by the close of polls on Election Day (7:00 p.m.).

Source:
SC State Election Commission
2221 Devine Street, Suite 105
Columbia, SC 29205
P: (803)734-9060
F: (803)734-9366
http://www.state.sc.us/scsec/
 

South Carolina Voter Registration Information:
South Carolina Local Election Offices:

ABBEVILLE
AIKEN
ALLENDALE
ANDERSON
BAMBERG
BARNWELL
BEAUFORT
BERKELEY
CALHOUN
CHARLESTON
CHEROKEE
CHESTER
CHESTERFIELD
CLARENDON
COLLETON
DARLINGTON
DILLON
DORCHESTER
EDGEFIELD
FAIRFIELD
FLORENCE
GEORGETOWN
GREENVILLE
GREENWOOD
HAMPTON
HORRY
JASPER
KERSHAW
LANCASTER
LAURENS
LEE
LEXINGTON
MARION
MARLBORO
MCCORMICK
NEWBERRY
OCONEE
ORANGEBURG
PICKENS
RICHLAND
SALUDA
SPARTANBURG
SUMTER
UNION
WILLIAMSBURG
YORK


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