The Latest: Exit Polls Show Big African-American Turnout

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the final voters making their way to polling places, South Carolina election officials are reporting few problems with the state’s Democratic presidential primary.

State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire says turnout appears to be lighter in 2016. He says precincts have reported fewer problems Saturday than in the Republican presidential; primary a week ago.

Turnout was large in one area. Whitmire says 54,000 absentee ballots were cast in this primary, compared to 35,000 in the last Democratic presidential primary in 2008.

But Whitmire says that doesn’t mean a record overall turnout, because the number of absentee votes cast in all South Carolina elections has been increasing rapidly in recent years.