Voting problems at another polling location in Spartanburg County to report. Tuesday night at 7pm, the Ben Avon Baptist Church had about two hundred people still waiting to cast their vote. The line wrapped through the halls of the voting precinct and around the church parking lot.
It was a large turn out some people hoped to made a profit off of. Signs posted across the street form the church at a private residence advertised parking for one dollar. Voter, Wanda Greenfield tells News Channel 7 she's never seen a voting crowd like this.....a crowd that has kept her from voting several times on election day.
"I've come by four times today, hoping to get in there with my children and the lines were way longer than this, so I didn't wait. Finally at the end of the night we decided to come back and wait."
To make sure the people who were standing outside got a chance to vote, poll workers passed out tickets with the word vote on them at the 7 o'clock deadline.
Also in Spartanburg County, Woodruff's largest voting precinct experienced problems. More than two hundred people set to vote at Woodruff City Hall were still waiting to vote two hours after polls closed because lines there extended outside the building. Poll Supervisor Charlie Mae Gilliam says the slow process of getting voters in and out was due to a number of curbside voters or disabled voters. Poll workers had to breakdown electronic voting machines nearly fifty different times to allow disabled voters to cast their vote from their vehicle. A record number of voter turnout was also something that slowed poll workers down.