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NewslettersNext Wednesday, Eula Simmons will be taking a break. (More)
Two newcomers are vying for the only contested Beaufort County Council seat among the four that will be on the ballot Tuesday. (More)
Residents lined up early Thursday to vote early at the elections office on John Galt Road. The office stayed open until 9 p.m. Thursday, has regular hours today and will be open Saturday. (More)
With less than a week until election day, Rep. Shannon Erickson, R-Beaufort, is trying to dispel a rumor that her house was built on an "African-American cemetery," which was stirred up by a mysterious mailer. (More)
BLUFFTON -- Two Beaufort County residents have filed a lawsuit against the Beaufort County Board of Elections, alleging the board has disenfranchised voters by removing numbers next to candidates' names on ballots. (More)
The Beaufort County Elections Office said it has contacted all the people it could reach who received ballots without voting directions, but at least three people say they have not been called. (More)
BLUFFTON — A day after an error was discovered on paper ballots that might affect the outcome for multi-seat, at-large elections, voters complained in Bluffton that electronic machines didn't register their votes. Three of four candidates for Bluffton Town Council say they have received complaints about Hilton Head Island's election office from residents voting absentee in person. (More)
With four forums under their belts, candidates running for mayor of Beaufort have the public-speaking thing down. But while anyone who attended multiple forums learned something new, they also heard some of the same. (More)
BLUFFTON-- A liberal political blog has accused a Hilton Head Island resident who serves on the S.C. State Election Commission of campaigning for presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, which would violate state law. (More)
BLUFFTON -- Black voters in Beaufort County registered at more than twice the rate of white voters in 2008, a trend mirrored throughout the state and particularly in counties where incumbent U.S. House Rep. Joe Wilson and his Democratic challenger, Rob Miller, are squaring off. (More)
House District 124 candidate Jim Brown held a press conference Thursday to discuss his arrest stemming from an argument during a visit to Lady's Island Elementary School nearly two years ago. (More)
For the second day this week, voters who went to cast absentee ballots Tuesday in the Nov. 4 general and presidential elections discovered Beaufort County voting machines weren't ready yet. (More)
