COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina ruled Friday that it is too late to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver’s licenses.
The teens were 17 at the time they went to the DMV, but would be 18 by Election Day. A glitch in the DMV’s computers did not identify the teens as qualified and did not present them with an additional electronic form certifying they were citizens, not felons and otherwise qualified to vote.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued to reopen registration on Tuesday, a day after early voting started in South Carolina. They provided several possible ways the teens could register and be allowed to cast ballots.
But Judge Daniel Coble said it is just too close to Election Day to do something so drastic as to alter the voting rolls.
The teens were 17 at the time they went to the DMV, but would be 18 by Election Day. A glitch in the DMV’s computers did not identify the teens as qualified and did not present them with an additional electronic form certifying they were citizens, not felons and otherwise qualified to vote.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued to reopen registration on Tuesday, a day after early voting started in South Carolina. They provided several possible ways the teens could register and be allowed to cast ballots.
But Judge Daniel Coble said it is just too close to Election Day to do something so drastic as to alter the voting rolls.
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