Two weeks from election day, the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit saying that the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles unlawfully denied voter registration opportunities to thousands of eligible South Carolinians.
The extent of the problem is “unclear” but “staggering,” according to the ACLU.
In the last 13 months alone, the South Carolina DMV has denied the opportunity for voter registration to 17,564 South Carolinians who were 17 years old at the time but would have been 18 and eligible to vote by the next election, according to the national civil rights organization…