Clarendon County consolidates polling precincts for June 23 runoff election

After a special called meeting on Tuesday, June 16, Board of Voter Registration and Elections in Clarendon County voted for the temporary consolidation of four polling precincts for the Statewide Primary Runoff Elections on Tuesday, June 23. 

The following polling places will vote at alternate polling locations: 

• Voters in Summerton No. 2 will vote at Summerton No. 1, at Summerton Fire Station, 6 N. Cantey St. in Summerton

• Voters in Sardinia-Gable will vote at New Zion, at New Zion Fire Station, 15677 Highway 301 in New Zion. 
• Voters in Panola will vote in Calvary, at Panola Fire Station, 1984 Elliot Road in Pinewood.
• Voters in Paxville will vote at Home Branch, at Paxville Fire Station, 2151 Conyers Road, in Paxville.

Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Clarendon County Director Robert Adams told The Item that the consolidation is to help ease staffing challenges because of a low number of poll workers. 

The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on runoff election day. 

Runoff elections are triggered in South Carolina if no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote and are likely in competitions with numerous candidates.

Republican candidates for governor, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson will head into the Republican gubernatorial runoff. The winner of the runoff race will face State Rep. Jermaine Johnson, D-Richland, in the November general election. 

The Republican attorney general race will feature a runoff between David Stumbo and Stephen Goldfinch, while the agriculture commissioner's race will have a runoff between Republicans Danny Ford and Cody Simpson.