By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Happy Election Day! If you haven’t already voted, please go vote! As a reminder, our Voter Guide has information about who’s on the ballot and answers to questions about the polls.
I need to correct my early voting tally in yesterday’s newsletter. I sincerely apologize: I didn’t realize until after the newsletter went out that the total number I used didn’t yet include Saturday. And more than 95,200 people voted on the last day of early voting. SO, over the entire 12-day span, 1.04 million South Carolinians voted, according to state Election Commission data. That leaves about 2.4 million registered voters who need to vote today!
Jessica is traveling to Charleston County today. Skylar will be in West Columbia at Jermaine Johnson’s gathering tonight. And Katharine will be at the GOP event in Columbia for all of the statewide Republican nominees. I’ve also hired a freelance photographer for the night. I want to say a giant “thank you” to the readers who responded to yesterday’s email request to help replenish funds for mileage and freelancing! Your support enables me to make those assignments.
Republicans gather at Steel Hands Brewing in Cayce, South Carolina, to hear from GOP nominees Monday night. (Photo by Katharine Wilson/SC Daily Gazette)
By Skylar Laird and Katharine Wilson
Republicans and Democrats in South Carolina made their final get-out-the-vote pitch ahead of Election Day at breweries just a few miles apart. At Bierkeller Brewing in Columbia, Democrats talked hopefully of a potentially historic election. At Steel Hands Brewing in Cayce, Republicans urged people to take friends with them to the polls to keep South Carolina ruby red.
Federal grocery aid will no longer buy candy and other items in South Carolina, following a change that went into effect Sunday. (File photo by Carol Johnson/Stateline)
By Skylar Laird
Grocery assistance in South Carolina no longer covers candy, sodas and other sugary drinks after a change in the program took effect Sunday. The new limitations for the federal aid are set to last two years before officials decide whether to make them permanent.
This is the federal courthouse in Columbia where John Lorick pleaded guilty to Clean Water Act violations. (File photo by Abraham Kenmore/SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
Ewwww! 💩On dozens of occasions over more than three years, the town of Saluda’s wastewater treatment plant released raw, untreated sewage directly into the Little Saluda River, which flows into Lake Murray. The plant’s senior manager pleaded guilty to concealing E. coli contamination.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE WEEKEND (I normally include this section in Monday’s newsletters but forgot yesterday)…
SC’s abortion ban has ‘serious problems,’ federal judge says | By Skylar Laird (This article posted Saturday morning following a three-day trial in Charleston)
Santee Cooper approves rate increase, including early expenses for new gas plant | By Jessica Holdman
Texas congresswoman campaigns to help SC Democrats, says she’s ‘not one of those’ 2028 contenders | By Katharine Wilson
MORE FROM STATES NEWSROOM’S D.C. DESK…
Trump promotes Reflecting Pool renovation the day before the election | By Ashley Murray
US Supreme Court rejects Trump DOJ’s attempt to freeze California vote counting | By Jonathan Shorman
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