SC ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS VOTER DATA DETAILS

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office has told the state Election Commission to provide details on voters excluded from an analysis of people lacking state issued identification required by a new law. The law passed this year requires voters to show photo identification such as a South Carolina driver’s license in order to cast regular ballots at polling places. That law is being reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department. The federal agency wanted details on registered voters that don’t have state-issued IDs. The commission provided information about nearly 217,000 voters who have voted in the past two general elections. That excluded up to 74,000 voters deemed inactive in 2009 because they hadn’t voted in 2006 or 2008. The commission was told Monday to get data on those voters.