Volunteers with the SC Progressive Network‘s Missing Voter Project have been helping election officials in the county offices process new voter registrations and at the polls as people wait in long lines to vote absentee. We can use all the help we can get today and on Election Day. If you can lend even a couple of hours to volunteer, call the Network’s office at 803-808-3384 or John Dawkins at 803-467-1981. We need volunteers to help seniors and the disabled, to monitor the polls and to post flyers at precincts with the hotline number voters can call for free legal advice should they encounter any problems. That number is 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

Network Director Brett Busey helps answer voters’ questions as they wait in line to vote absentee in Columbia on Oct. 31. Some people waited for four hours to vote. Click here to see more photos.