Election day turnout - what happened?

More than 1.7 million voters across South Carolina cast ballots in the 2022 general election held just a few weeks ago at the time of this episode posting. In Greenville County, almost 180,000 people turned out to vote. Here at simple civics, we celebrate every vote and every voter who exercises their privilege to choose our leaders and have a say in what happens. These folks chose our governor, our State Superintendent of Education, our senator, and so much more. The bad news is just 52% of people registered to vote in Greenville County came out to do so. Almost half of our voters didn't take part in this decision-making process. Today, we'll take a look at turnout in the 2022 election. Who voted, who stayed home, and how to change that number. If you have comments, pushback, or just questions, please email us at [email protected]. For now, I'll take a look at the data with our producer Nathaniel DeSantis with the Greenville podcast company.

Election Stats: https://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/115412/Web02-state.307150/#/?undefined 

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