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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina voters have removed from the state constitution a long-ignored provision about the age of consent for sex.
With 79 percent of precincts reporting, 52 percent of voters approved the amendment. It deletes an item included in the constitution setting the age of consent for sex for unmarried women at 14.
The provision has been ignored for decades. State law sets the age at 16 for both sexes.
Supporters of the amendment said it would clean up South Carolina's 113-year-old Constitution.
The amendment must be ratified by a majority of legislators before it takes effect.
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