Updemocrats down. The trends for the two parties since 2008 in this state show a significant drop in democratic voter participationwhile gop voters continue to turn out in greater numbers. 2008 of course, a good year for the democrats here with the first contest between Hillary Clinton and a relative newcomer named barack obama. About 23 per cent of democrats go to the pollsalmost 20 per cent of republicans. In 2012thenpresident obama firmly in command and there was no democratic primary here as he sought and eventually won his second term. South Carolina Republicans managed to grow their turnout by a couple of pointsin the year they chose former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and snapped their string of picking a candidate who went on to win the partys nomination. This year, continued expansion of gop participationa sharp rise of almost four per cent with just over 25 per cent voting. A level of enthusiasm likely driven in some part by the trump candidacy. Democrats meanwhiledropped dram
Joyce koh, news 19 wltx. All right. Thank you very much. The states longest serving representative says she retiring. Gradey brown made the announcement today on the senate floor. He is among 8 lawmakers not seeking another term. All house and senate seats are up for election this year. Candidates must file with the state Election Commission between march 16 and march 30. Primaries will be held june 14. Tonight a Richland County deputy fired and charged with misconduct in office. Kaleb broome. Deputies say last tuesday he responded to a home to assist a dispute. While he was at the call he defaced a poster of africa in the victims garage with a racial slur and then stole a double sided piece of tape from the victim. Charged him today. He took the word nigeria and circled it and made a racial slur. The use of a racial slur is against our policy. He is charged with a criminal offense which is defacing that poster and for stealing something. Kaleb broome has been with the Sheriffs Departm
With decreasing cloud coverage and a lot of sunshine, it will be noticeably cooler but a warm 63 degrees with the winds out of the northwest at 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Tomorrow, well have a lot of sunshine throughout the day. A high of 61 before another chance of late evening, overnight showers returns back to the midlands. The roads right now are wet and as we take a look at the road conditions, we are looking at i the right happened side is the westbound leg as you are heading towards st. Andrew. On i20 westbound approaching monticello road, there is an accident there. Traveling from harbison, about an eightminute drive. A lot of sunshine today and tomorrow, we will have the chance for rain coming in tomorrow night. Well take a look at that and the sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. Time now 6 03. The Richland County board of elections and Voter Registration is acting to double its budgeet for this election season. Director says they dont have enough funds for carry out
Want to pass the gas tax. Other lawmakers want a gas tax increase. The senator did motion a couple times to vote on the roads bill and that was blocked by the interand others. By senators and others. I know there is a lot of frustration outside the state house, within the public and the state. There is frustration inside as wellllbecause we just seem to be stuck. And i mean, look, we are stuck because there there are a lot of very firmly held positions on opposite ends of this thing but we really anywhere. Reporter as you heard the optimism is dwindling as the filibuster continued to go on and despite calls from the Business Community earlier today to vote on a roads plan, things this way for a while. Joyce koh, news 19 wltx. Now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. Today was a beautiful day. We saw some clouds, though, but the sun came out and warmed us up. Low was 45 degrees at the airport. 44 in the city. We warmed up to 76 in the city and 77 degr
Expected 3 to see some those cooler are back. Lets forecast with 3 3 3 3 the Sumter Fire Department is continuing its training depsite its Training Center being destoryed by the october floods. For the First Time Since those floods, news 19 was able to walk through whats left of the building. Its now open and gutted but it is used to house two classrooms, the backup 911 center, a computer lab, bathrooms, a full kitchen and a storage area. Battalion chief joey duggan oversees the Department Still has to meet training requirements so they buildings. 3 we built the the pictures memories are able to go through and to and the realize fight fires and people, but 3 the damages are at an estimated 400thousand department has insurance and fema is also helping. 3 the flood also forced students at the Autism Academy of South Carolina out of their classrooms for several months for students with autism. Instability and change is much tougher to deal with. News 19 Janae Frazier shows us their challe