For weeks, volunteers have been making hundreds of thousands of get-out-the-vote phone calls for the South Carolina Republican Party. They continued on Election Day.
State Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson says, "Our get-out-the-vote program used to, days back, stop on Fridays. Now we work all weekend and all night and we certainly want our Republican voters to get out there and wait in lines. The lines were long and tedious this morning, and in the Upstate we still have some four and five hundred people in lines."
He says the party knows that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is drawing thousands of new voters to the polls, so the Republicans need to make sure all of its voters make it to the polls, too.
He says there have been some glitches. In a Beaufort state Senate race between Republican Tom Davis and Democrat Kent Fletcher, some voters didn't have that race on their ballots. Instead, Democratic Senator Clementa Pinckney, who's running unopposed in another district, appeared on the ballot.
Dawson says the party also got a report of 46 people from one address voting in York. When party workers checked on the address, he says there's no way 46 people could live there.
While volunteers have continued to make phone calls, they won't stop once the polls close in South Carolina. They'll start making get-out-the-vote calls to other battleground states where the polls are still open.
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