Title 7, Elections

(A) In Saluda County there are the following voting precincts: Centennial Fruit Hill Higgins/Zoar Holly Hollywood Holstons Pleasant Grove Richland Ridge Spring/Monetta Saluda No. 1 Saluda No. 2 Sardis Ward (B) The precinct lines defining the above precincts are as shown on offici…

(A) In Spartanburg County there are the following voting precincts: Abner Creek Baptist Airport Anderson Mill Baptist Anderson Mill Elementary Apalache Baptist Arcadia Elementary Beacon Beech Springs Intermediate Ben Avon Methodist Bethany Wesleyan Blackstock Boiling Springs Elem…

(A) In Allendale County there are the following voting precincts: Allendale No. 1 Allendale No. 2 Fairfax No. 1 Fairfax No. 2 Martin Sycamore Ulmer Woods. (B) The precinct lines defining the above precincts are as shown on maps on file with the Board of Voter Registration and Ele…

(A) In Sumter County there are the following voting precincts: Bates Birnie Burns-Downs Causeway Branch 1 Causeway Branch 2 Cherryvale Crosswell Dalzell 1 Dalzell 2 Delaine Ebenezer 1 Ebenezer 2 Folsom Park Furman Green Swamp 1 Green Swamp 2 Hampton Park Hillcrest Horatio Lemira …

(A) In Union County there are the following voting precincts: Adamsburg Black Rock Bonham Buffalo, Box 1 Carlisle Cross Keys Excelsior Jonesville, Box 1 Jonesville, Box 2 Kelton Lockhart Monarch Putnam Santuck Union, Ward 1, Box 1 Union, Ward 1, Box 2 Union, Ward 2 Union, Ward 3 …

(A) In Williamsburg County there are the following voting precincts: Black River Bloomingvale Cades Cedar Swamp Central Earles Greeleyville Harmony Hebron Hemingway Henry-Poplar Hill Indiantown Kingstree No. 1 Kingstree No. 2 Kingstree No. 3 Kingstree No. 4 Lane Morrisville Mount…

(A) In York County there are the following voting precincts: Adnah Airport Allison Creek Anderson Road Baxter Bethany Bethel Bethel School Bowling Green Bullocks Creek Cannon Mill Carolina Catawba Celanese Clover Cotton Belt Crescent Delphia Dobys Bridge Ebenezer Ebinport Edgewoo…

The polling places for the precincts provided in Section 7-7-50 must be established by the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Allendale County subject to the approval of the majority of the Allendale County Legislative Delegation.

The State Election Commission shall report the names of all polling precincts by county that have more than one thousand five hundred registered electors as of January first to the General Assembly not later than the fourth Tuesday of each odd-numbered year. If, by April first of…

(A) A person whose registration is transferred to another precinct by virtue of the provisions of this article must be notified by mail by the county board of voter registration and elections of the transfer. (B) A person whose notification is returned to the county board of vote…

When a precinct has more than seven hundred fifty registered electors, the precinct list must be divided alphabetically so that no list contains more than seven hundred fifty electors and separate managers and facilities are provided within the polling place for each list of elec…

(A) In Anderson County there are the following voting precincts: Appleton-Equinox Barker's Creek-McAdams Belton Belton Annex Bishop's Branch Bowling Green Broadview Broadway Brushy Creek Cedar Grove Center Rock Centerville Station A Centerville Station B Chiquola Mill Concrete Co…

(A) In Bamberg County the voting precincts are as follows: Colston East Denmark Edisto Ehrhardt Govan Hightower's Mill Hunter's Chapel Kearse Little Swamp North Bamberg Olar South Bamberg West Denmark. (B) The precinct lines defining the precincts in subsection (A) are as shown o…

(A) Subject to the provisions of Section 7-7-920 and Section 7-5-440 and except as provided in subsection (B) of this section, each elector must be registered and, unless otherwise specified on his voting certificate, shall vote at the designated polling place within the precinct…

In all municipal elections when the aldermen or councilmen are elected by wards, the electors shall vote at the voting place within their ward nearest their residences, and in all municipal elections when the aldermen, councilmen or other officials are elected by a vote at large …

In case of the moving of a registered elector from one precinct to another in the same county, the elector must notify the board of voter registration and elections of the county. The board must note the fact upon the proper book and give the elector a notification of the precinc…

When a new voting precinct is established by law, the county board of voter registration and elections must transfer from the books of registration the names of electors registered to vote in other voting precincts as should register and vote in the new voting precinct and shall …

(a) Any elector whose precinct or ward is changed by a change of ward or precinct boundaries must have notification mailed to him by the county board of voter registration and elections reflecting his new precinct or ward. (b) Any area in the county annexed to a municipality whic…

When one voting place has been changed to another in the same township or polling precinct, or when the name of the voting place has been changed since the last general election, the registration of electors for the former voting place shall be valid and effectual for the new vot…

Federal, state and county officers and their spouses temporarily residing at or near the capital or county seat may register and vote in their former home precincts if they so desire.

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county board of voter registration and elections in each county of the state is encouraged to make every polling place barrier free and shall provide at least one polling place, free of architectural barriers, which shall be know…

Political parties desiring to nominate candidates for offices to be voted on in a general or special election shall, before doing so, have applied to the State Election Commission (Commission) for certification as such. Parties shall nominate candidates of that party on a regular…

The state convention shall meet at a location in this state determined by the state committee to have adequate facilities during a thirteen-month period ending May fifteenth of every general election year on a day and at a time fixed by the state committee and announced publicly …

No state funds shall in any manner be used for the purpose of holding conventions pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-9-100.

A political party or the State Election Commission may conduct a primary or election, without charge, in any facility that receives state funds for support or operation. The use of the facility, pursuant to the provisions of this section, is subject to the availability of the fac…

The qualifications for membership in a certified party and for voting at a party primary election include the following: the applicant for membership, or voter, must be at least eighteen years of age or become so before the succeeding general election, and must be a registered el…

A county convention must be held during a twelve-month period ending March thirty-first of each general election year during a month determined by the state committee as provided in Section 7-9-100. The county committee shall set the date, time, and location during the month desi…

Each county convention shall be called to order by the county chairman and shall proceed to elect a temporary president, a temporary secretary and a committee on credentials for the purpose of organizing. When organized, it shall elect a permanent president, a secretary and treas…

The state committee is composed of one member from each county, elected by the county conventions, the state chairman and state vice-chairman, elected by the state convention; and for the Republican and Democratic party state committees, the president of the South Carolina Federa…

(A) Nominations for candidates for the offices to be voted on in a general or special election may be by political party primary, by political party convention, or by petition; however, a person who was defeated as a candidate for nomination to an office in a party primary or par…

(A) A person nominated for the Office of Governor by primary or convention, or seeking the Office of Governor as a petition candidate must designate a qualified elector to be elected jointly as Lieutenant Governor. (B) A designee for Lieutenant Governor must possess all of the qu…

(A) In order to qualify as a candidate to run in the general election, all candidates seeking nomination by political party primary or political party convention must file a statement of intention of candidacy and party pledge and submit any filing fees between noon on March sixt…

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B), party conventions or party primary elections held by political parties certified as such by the State Election Commission pursuant to the provisions of this title to nominate candidates for any of the offices to be filled in a general or …

Every candidate for selection as a nominee of any political party for any state office, United States Senator, member of Congress, or solicitor, to be voted for in any party primary election or political party convention, shall file with and place in the possession of the appropr…

Nothing in this chapter nor any other provision of law may be construed as either requiring or prohibiting a political party in this State from conducting advisory primaries according to the party's own rules and at the party's expense.

(A) A party may choose to change from nomination of candidates by primary to a method to nominate candidates by convention for all offices including, but not limited to, Governor, United States Senator, United States House of Representatives, Circuit Solicitor, State Senator, and…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a political party in this State shall nominate candidates by party primary election, the person with whom candidates of that party for the House of Representatives file shall report to the State Election Commission the names and addr…

In multi-county senatorial districts, the amounts of assessments to be paid by candidates for the office of State Senator at the time and place of filing notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7-11-410, shall be fixed by a majority of the county chairmen of the counties in the…

If a party nominee who was nominated by a method other than party primary election dies, becomes disqualified after his nomination, or resigns his candidacy for a legitimate nonpolitical reason as defined in this section and sufficient time does not remain to hold a convention to…

If the executive committee of a political party substitutes a candidate for a general or special election pursuant to Section 7-11-50, it must do so as soon as is reasonably possible. The executive committee must nominate a substitute candidate for an office not more than thirty …

If a party nominee dies, becomes disqualified after his nomination, or resigns his candidacy for a legitimate nonpolitical reason as defined in Section 7-11-50 and was selected through a party primary election, the vacancy must be filled in a special primary election to be conduc…

A candidate's nominating petition for any office in this State shall contain the signatures of at least five percent of the qualified registered electors of the geographical area of the office for which he offers as a candidate; provided, that no petition candidate is required to…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7-11-70, petitions to nominate candidates elected in the general election to serve as commissioners of public service districts shall require signatures of not less than two hundred fifty qualified electors of the district concerned or fi…

All nominating petitions for any political office or petition of any political party seeking certification as such in the State of South Carolina shall be standardized as follows: (1) Shall be on good quality original bond paper sized 8 1⁄2 '' X 14''. (2) Shall contain a concise …

Every signature on a petition requiring five hundred or less signatures must be checked for validity by the respective county board of voter registration and elections against the signatures of the voters on the original applications for registration on file in the board office. …

After the closing of entries if any candidates shall be unopposed, the state committee in the case of state offices and the county committees in the case of county offices shall declare such unopposed candidates as party nominees, and the names of unopposed candidates shall not b…