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Officials in several battleground states have proposed boosting funding to add staff, enhance security and expand training within election offices ahead of the 2024 race. The proposed funding increases come as many election offices are grappling with a wave of retirements and a flood of public records requests from election skeptics, stemming partly from lingering election distrust seeded by former President Donald Trump. A top South Carolina election official says almost half of county election directors have resigned in the last two years.

Former president Donald Trump is trying to unseat two incumbent Republicans who serve South Carolina's coastal congressional districts. He says they betrayed him.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace says she's raised more than any other South Carolina House candidate in 2022. Mace told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she has raised a total of nearly $2.5 million for next year's reelection. That includes about $950,000 in the third fundraising quarter, which ended last month, an amount that eclipsed each of her two previous quarters this year. Mace is seeking to maintain the GOP's hold on a district that has changed party hands twice in as many election cycles. In November, she defeated Democratic Rep. Joe Cunningham and became the first Republican woman elected to represent South Carolina in Congress.

The executive director of the South Carolina Election Commission will leave her post at the end of the year. The resignation letter obtained by news outlets says Marci Andino informed the board's chairman Wednesday that her last day would be Dec. 31.

Palmetto Perspectives: Voting in South Carolina, airs Thursday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. on both SCETV and SC Public Radio and streams live on the network’s…

President Trump rallied with Gov. Henry McMaster at Airport High School in West Columbia. The 71-year old McMaster is competing with 39-year old…