CLEMSON — Today is Election Day in the United States, but Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney will have to wait until Friday for his vote to be counted.

Swinney attempted to vote on Tuesday morning in Pickens County, South Carolina, but was told by a poll worker that he had already cast an early ballot. Preferring to vote on Election Day, Swinney commented that he didn’t get to vote and felt that the recent 33-21 loss against Louisville impacted how he was seen.

“I was thinking, ‘Wow, they’ve voted me out of the state,'” Swinney joked at the regular news conference on Tuesday. “We’re 6-2, 5-1 (in the ACC), and they’ve already sent me packing.”

The confusion arose because Swinney’s oldest son, William Swinney, voted early last week, and the poll counted his ballot as Dabo’s since they share the same first name. Dabo expected the voting process to take just 10 minutes but ended up spending nearly an hour at the polls.

Swinney said he had to fill out a paper ballot and mentioned that he and his son’s votes should be counted on Friday after a hearing.

“I’m not sure if it’ll matter come Friday,” Swinney said. “I’m just trying to do my duty as a citizen and vote, but sometimes things don’t go as planned — yet you keep pushing forward and work it out.”

Today, millions of Americans are voting for the next president of the United States, choosing between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. In South Carolina, around 1.5 million people participated in the two weeks of early voting.