Governor McMaster signed the "South Carolina Election Integrity Act" into law in a State House ceremony, Wednesday afternoon. The first part of the legislation tackles the politically charged voter-ID issue. The act will require anyone registering to vote in any municipal, county or statewide election to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. That can be a birth certificate, a valid or expired passport or certificate of naturalization, and there's a clause saying any "other documentation the State Election Commission deems sufficient to establish...citizenship."
It also orders voting systems purchased by the state to offer a paper ballot tabulated by an optical scanner, and an accessible system for disabled voters at each polling place. Post-election "risk-limiting" audits. The essential provision on that calls for an intensive manual tabulation of the ballots if evidence of a discrepancy in any precinct casts enough doubt on the results to affect the outcome of the election.
The bill will also require the Bureau of Vital Statistics to provide the elections director with updated reports on the deaths of everyone in the state eighteen or older to -- quote -- "remove deceased voters from the official list of eligible voters."