Early voting is going on here in SC, 132k Democrats 75k Republicans so far

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00:00 All right, welcome to the program on your Wednesday afternoon. Glad to have you along with us as we are literally in, I mean, we are like, like the white flag is out, hammer is down, election season is here. We're about to go to the polls coming up on Tuesday and make a slew of choices for South Carolina. What is our future going to look like? Who is going to be our next leader? 00:25 in the governor's mansion. mean, we've got so many. What about the attorney general's race? So many things are going on right now. um We do have early voting happening at this moment. And that's gonna let me see here through yesterday, through yesterday. Now this might surprise you just a wee bitty bit, but through yesterday there were 207. 00:51 207,261 South Carolinians voted early. That's according to SC Votes. Of those, 132,452 or 63.9 % participated in the Democrat primary. That's right, Democrats are getting out there and they are voting in huge numbers right now. Republicans... 01:17 looks like 74,809 have voted. That is only, well, that's 36.1%. And we've just got a couple more days of early voting to go. I believe it ends on Friday, about five o'clock. So if you haven't early voted, my wife and I are gonna go early vote tomorrow morning, nice and early. We're gonna get up there. We're gonna go ahead and do that because we don't want anything to happen on Tuesday. mean, Tuesday's gonna be a very busy day anyway, right? Everybody, got the, ah 01:47 election return gathering at the foundry at Judson Mill coming up on Tuesday night. Got to get it ready for all of that. You never know what could happen. So I'm going to go up, my wife and I are going to go ahead and get it there and vote early. Have you voted early? Your own self. That's what I would like to know. Are you planning on early voting? Now, when we look at those numbers like that, know, 132,000, a little over, Democrats have voted 75,000 Republicans. 02:17 Republicans are historically the group that just votes the day up. They just like to vote on the day of the election. And you know, you can't blame them, right? I mean, because we've seen what the Democrats have done. We have seen all that that is happening. Well, all you got to do is look at what's happening in California right now. They say they might not be able to count all of those ballots for two more weeks. Two more. 02:47 weeks that could be before these people find out exactly well I you know we got a pretty good idea of what's going on we know that that that that Pratt is going to be there we know that Karen Bass is going to be there so but again that's how long they take and that's pretty amazing it really is 03:13 Let's go to uh Erica over, let's see, Erica. Erica is in Anderson. How you doing Erica? Hey. Hello. So I just had a quick question. um If we go to early voting, we go early vote, do we go to the same place we went to? 03:34 election? No, you do You do not. You do not go there. Your normal voting place is not. uh So you're you're an Anderson, right? Early voting. Let me just see if I can find your early voting centers in Anderson. You're going to be at the counter, the county voter registration office on Main Street. The Powdersville Library. The Pendleton Branch Library or the Watkins Community Center. 04:05 and it has to be in the county I live, correct? Yes, yes it does. Yes, Anderson County. Okay. Okay. Well, that helps. Thank you much. Well, you're very welcome, Erica. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Now, if you are confused about where to do your early voting, it's really, really easy. Go to scvotes.gov. That's scvotes.gov. And go to voters, right? And it will say, find my polling place. 04:34 You click on that. Wait a minute. Hold on. You don't do that actually. That is not, I'm sorry. I told you wrong. Go to voters and then go to, no, I'm going to quit doing that early voting. Go to voters, then go to early voting and scroll down and you will, you'll ...

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