South Carolina's new voter ID law could affect an unlikely group: Older white voters who have higher incomes, are reliably Republican and live in retirement homes and gated golf communities along the state's southern coast, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
There are roughly 217,000 active voters in the state who do not have a driver's license or state ID card, election officials said. Of those, almost a third are 65 or older, and nearly 1,600 of them live in precincts in Beaufort County's Sun City retirement community or affluent neighborhoods nearby, according to AP's analysis.
The law has drawn criticism from Democrats and others who say it will hit the state's black, poor, elderly and disabled voters the hardest because they don't have a photo ID and face many challenges to get one.
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