ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (SIO/Gray News) – South Carolina authorities are investigating after an altercation broke out at an early voting location Wednesday in Orangeburg County.

The dispute was between a man wearing a politicized hat and election workers.

According to video sent to WIS, the man wearing a “Go Brandon” hat was cursing at a poll worker when he was told he couldn’t vote at the Orangeburg County site.

In the video, poll workers can be heard telling the man to take his hat “outside.”

A poll worker said they couldn’t handle him and called the next voter in line. The man then threw his hat in the direction of the person in line to vote, according to the video.

After that, the altercation escalated and a poll worker appeared to hit the man, according to the video.

Officials at the early voting location appeared to hold the man back as he approached poll workers.

The Orangeburg County Department of Public Safety reportedly responded to the fight.

South Carolina The law restricts what people can wear. to the polling places. Voters are not allowed to wear anything that displays a political party, a candidate’s name or an election issue.

He the law says the “election manager shall use all reasonable means to keep the area within five hundred feet of such entrance free of political literature and displays, and county and municipal law enforcement officers, upon request of an election manager, shall remove or cause to be removed.” removed any material within five hundred feet of said entrance distributed or displayed in violation of this section.”

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is now investigating the incident.

Early voting in South Carolina runs through November 2.

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