SC election sample ballots

SCVotes has a page that lets you check your voter registration. The results page lists your federal, state, and local voting districts, based on your address. Even better than that, it now also includes a link to a sample ballot listing all the candidates you'll be able to vote on, based on your address.

A sample ballot is a representation of what your actual ballot will look like on election day. Your sample ballot will contain the offices and questions for which you will be eligible to vote. Sample ballots are for informational purposes only. Sample ballots are made available approximately 45 days prior to an election.

This is something I've been wanting for a long time, so that I can focus on researching the candidates, as opposed to spending a lot of extra time simply trying to figure out which seats are up for election and who the candidates are.

Based on this Post and Courier article, the sample ballots have been available for 2 years already. Wow.

Voters wanting to know exactly what races they will be voting on have had a tough time in the past, but those days may be over - at least for South Carolina voters with access to the Internet.

The State Election Commission has come up with a way for voters to see a sample of the exact ballot they will see on Election Day.

Before, county election offices and newspapers could not produce such ballots. Depending on a voter's address and the number of contested legislative races, each county prepared dozens - even more than 100 - different ballots.

But a new website can help voters sift through that, and it was unveiled this week. Voters simply must key in their county, name and birth date ...