Flying Without Fear FRIDAY @ the MSC

[Caribbean Soul]

Good morning Bill, Penny and Debbie. The heat index is already over 100.

Maybe I'll take a short ride and vote today, it's the last day of early voting for the Senate race. Lindsay Graham won the original primary but after he died they had to have another primary. Nobody got 50% of the vote so there's a runoff between the top two vote getters. I'm a registered independent so I can vote in either party's primary. Might as well do my civic duty.

I knew about the not-50% earlier primary which forced the runoff... but I did not know that one was the second, I guess I missed the first one (that Lindsay won). So the Republicans will have 3 different ones?
Just curious... as a registered Independent, if you had voted in the original Democratic Primary, could you now vote in the subsequent Republican ones?
In MA, we Independents (known as "unenrolled" here) can also choose which ballot to vote, but we've never had any 2nd or 3rd ones to worry about.

The original primary, that Lindsay won, was in June. So yes, this is the third primary.

The way the primary voting is in South Carolina, you can only vote for one party. Anyone who voted in the Democratic primary isn't eligible to vote in the Republican runoff. If they voted in one or both of the other Republican primaries, or didn't vote at all, they can vote in the runoff.

Thanks! That is what I assumed... but was not sure.