A voter in South Carolina recently revealed her stance on the upcoming General Election on Nov. 3.
Wendy Damron is a legislative liaison of the South Carolina Convention of States Project, CFO of Abatis Technologies, and Director of Palmetto Promise Institute. While she says the presidential election is important to her, she thinks state and local elections deserve greater public attention.
"Our Capitol is just as important as what happens on the federal level,” Damron told the Charleston Reporter. “As you know, [we're] trying to get the Convention of States Resolution passed here in South Carolina, and so we need to have the candidates in there that are going to be supportive of that.”
The Convention of States resolution is part of a greater nationwide effort aimed at imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government and limiting terms of office for federal officials and members of congress.
Damron says she’s making an effort to educate people on local and state issues and candidates in the upcoming general election, but it’s an uphill battle.
“I think we have enough Republicans in the area,” says Damron. “But it's just a matter of thinking you got to get them out there to vote and a lot of people just don't pay attention to who is my state representative, who is my state senator because it's easy to not know that because you don't have 24-hour news channels talking about that all the time like you do with what's going on at the federal level.”
Damron says that she’s seeing her state and community turning more Democratic as voters from blue states relocate to South Carolina.
"Our area is tending to turn a little bit purple,” says Damron. “We have a lot of people that move down here from Democratic states and they tend to bring their voting records with them. So some of these races are going to be pretty tight, and so I've been making a lot of phone calls and knocking on a lot of doors and just trying to get the vote out.”
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