'I wanted my vote to be counted': In South Carolina, a peek at COVID-19's impact on elections.
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When her son got home from work the next day, he drove Anderson, 71, to the curbside line for disabled voters at about 4:45 p.m. and waited. And waited. After more than three hours of inching along, alternating between running the air conditioner to ward off the 90-degree June heat and turning off the car to give it a break, they still weren't close to the front of the line. Hungry, they left at 8:15 p.m.
Anderson's precinct, Briarwood, has around 2,500 voters. Nearly two out of three are, like Anderson, Black. The move from the usual polling place to Spring Valley High School, prompted by poll worker shortages attributable to the pandemic, meant that voters in this precinct, on average, had to travel nearly 3 miles more to vote in person. That's the second-largest distance increase for any Richland County precinct, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.
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