COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles says they’ve worked with the State Election Commission to identify the voters that are still without a finalized registration, after one 17-year-old discovered a registration error that the American Civil Liberties Union says goes back two decades.
Voters who are 17 but will turn 18 by the time of the next election are eligible to complete their voter registration before they turn 18, but due to an error at the DMV, they haven’t been allowed to for the past 22 years, according to the lawsuit.
The issue has gotten the state’s DMV and Election Commission in a lawsuit with the ACLU, who is asking the judge to order an injunction to the Election Commission to register these voters. The deadline to register to vote was over a week ago, after the Election Commission was ordered by a judge in a different lawsuit to extend following the impacts of Hurricane Helene…