Early vote numbers balloon

Early GOP presidential primary voting in Oconee approaches two thousand votes cast.  Added to the running count of the county elections office yesterday were 492 new votes.  After four days, the total number that has exercised its voting rights reached 1,972.  Early voting will end on Thursday next week.  Although Monday is President’s Day, South Carolina will allow no early voting on the holiday.  Apart from voting early, voters have the option of casting absentee votes and there’s always in-person voting 7 to 7 on Election Day Saturday, February 24.