CLEMSON — For a second Tuesday morning, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney thought the worst when he was told he could not vote in the elections.

“‘Dang! They’ve done voted me out of the state because I lost a game,” he said smiling during his weekly press conference. “We are 6-2 and 5-1 and they shipped me off.'”

Swinney and the Tigers are coming off a loss to Louisville this past Saturday, a game in which they were outplayed and outcoached in all facets. And though Swinney knows how serious Clemson fans take football in the state of South Carolina, he did not think it was this serious.

“I tried to do my best this morning and go vote and they told me I could not vote. That was quite an experience,” Swinney said with a chuckle.”

In all serious, though, Swinney’s inability to cast his vote had nothing to do with the Tigers’ loss to Louisville and more to do with his oldest son, Will Swinney.

After reporting to his designated voting spot, which had no one there at the time, Dabo Swinney waited to be told he could go vote.

“Then they hit the (computer) and were, ‘I’m sorry. I can’t give you a ballot,'” Swinney said.

Swinney was told he had already voted.

“‘I can assure you I have not voted,'” he said. “‘It says we issued you an early ballot and you voted.’ I was like, ‘No.’

“As it turns out, Will, my oldest, voted last week and they somehow messed it up and did not verify his birthday or something, and they counted me as the vote. So what was supposed to take ten minutes took an hour.”

The next thing Swinney knows is he is on the phone with a director who is in charge of how one votes and its process.

“I was on the phone with some director named Amy, super sweet lady, and she is trying to tell me this whole process,” Swinney said. “There is going to be some hearing on Friday. I had to do this whole paper ballot stuff. It was quite an experience this morning.

“Apparently, they are going to fix it on Friday and our two votes will count on Friday. I don’t know if it will matter on Friday, but… I was trying to do my best and be a good citizen and go vote and sometimes doing your best ain’t good enough. You have to keep going though, and keep figuring it out.”

The Tigers, ranked No. 23 in the College Football Playoff Rankings on Tuesday night, will try to get things figured out this Saturday when they take on Virginia Tech at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va.