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SC Code § 7-9-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Party Organization|Section 7-9-80. County conventions; organization and conduct of business.

 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 treasurer. It shall also elect the county chairman, the county vice-chairman and a member of the state committee from the county and as many delegates to the state convention as triple the number of members from the county in the House of Representatives, plus one. But county conventions at their discretion may elect double the number of delegates in which case each delegate shall have one-half vote. The secretary of the convention shall keep a record of the proceedings in the minute book.  All officers except delegates shall be reported to the clerk of court of the county and to the Secretary of State prior to the state convention. The reports shall be public record.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-260; 1952 Code Section 23-260; 1950 (46) 2059; 1964 (53) 1831; 1968 (55) 2349.
SC Code § 7-9-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Party Organization|Section 7-9-90. State committee.

 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 Federation of Republican Women and the president of the South Carolina Federation of Democratic Women ex officio are members of their respective state committees. Those persons named as members of the national executive committee of a national party are ex officio members of the state committee. If the office of state chairman or state vice-chairman becomes vacant, the state committee may fill the vacancy by electing a chairman or vice-chairman to serve until the organization of the next regular state convention. The state committee shall choose its other officers, not necessarily from the membership. The state chairman may vote only in case of a tie. The state committee shall meet at the call of the state chairman or any five members and at a time and place as he may appoint. Vacancies on the state committee, other than in the offices of state chairman and state vice-chairman, and the presidents of the women's federations must be filled by the respective county committees. The members of the state committee shall continue in office for two years from the time of their election, and until their successors are elected. The state committee shall nominate presidential electors and a vacancy in the state ticket of electors or in the national committee of a party must be filled by the state committee by a majority of the whole committee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-261; 1952 Code Section 23-261; 1950 (46) 2059; 1960 (51) 1612; 1992 Act No. 254, Section 1, eff February 18, 1992.
SC Code § 7-9-105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Party Organization|Section 7-9-105. Use of state funds for state conventions prohibited.

 No state funds shall in any manner be used for the purpose of holding conventions pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-9-100.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 423, Section 2, eff April 5, 1988.
SC Code § 7-9-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Party Organization|Section 7-9-110. Conducting elections or primaries in facilities receiving state funds.

 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 facility as determined by the facility's governing entity.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 81, Section 4, eff June 19, 2007.
SC Code § 7-11-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-10. Methods of nominating candidates.

 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 party convention shall not have his name placed on the ballot for the ensuing general or special election, except that this section does not prevent a defeated candidate from later becoming his party's nominee for that office in that election if the candidate first selected as the party's nominee dies, resigns, is disqualified, or otherwise ceases to become the party's nominee for that office before the election is held.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-263; 1952 Code Section 23-263; 1950 (46) 2059; 1982 Act No. 419, Section 5, eff June 8, 1982; 2013 Act No. 61, Section 1, eff June 25, 2013.  Editor's Note  2013 Act No. 61, Section 14,provides as follows:  "SECTION 14. This act takes effect upon preclearance approval by the United States Department of Justice or approval by a declaratory judgment issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, whichever occurs first."  The amendment by 2013 Act No. 61 became effective June 25, 2013, see South Carolina Libertarian Party v. South Carolina State Election Com'n, 407 S.C. 612, 757 S.E.2d 707 (2014).
SC Code § 7-11-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-25. Advisory primaries conducted by political party.

 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.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 253, Section 14, eff February 19, 1992; 2007 Act No. 81, Section 3, eff June 19, 2007; 2014 Act No. 256 (H.4732), Section 2, eff June 6, 2014.
SC Code § 7-11-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-30. Convention nomination of candidates.

 (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 members of the State House of Representatives if:  (1) there is a three-fourths vote of the total membership of the convention to use the convention nomination process; and  (2) a majority of voters in that party's next primary election approve the use of the convention nomination process.  (B) A party may not choose to nominate by party convention for an election cycle in which the filing period for candidates has begun.  (C) A political party nominating candidates by party convention shall nominate the party candidates and make the nominations public not later than the time for certifying candidates to the authority charged by law with preparing ballots for the general or special election.  (D) Nothing in this section requires a political party that has nominated candidates by convention in the previous election cycle to hold a primary in order to continue using the convention method to nominate candidates.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-264; 1952 Code Section 23-264; 1950 (46) 2059; 1964 (53) 1744; 1966 (54) 2093; 1968 (55) 2316; 1972 (57) 2531; 1974 (58) 2124; 1984 Act No. 403, Section 1, eff May 24, 1984; 2013 Act No. 61, Section 3, eff June 25, 2013; 2014 Act No. 196 (S.815), Section 6, eff June 2, 2014; 2019 Act No. 1 (S.2), Section 86, eff January 31, 2019.  Editor's Note  2013 Act No. 61, Section 14, provides as follows:  "SECTION 14. This act takes effect upon preclearance approval by the United States Department of Justice or approval by a declaratory judgment issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, whichever occurs first."  The amendment by 2013 Act No. 61 became effective June 25, 2013, see South Carolina Libertarian Party v. South Carolina State Election Com'n, 407 S.C. 612, 757 S.E.2d 707 (2014).  Effect of Amendment  2019 Act No. 1, Section 86, in (A), deleted "Lieutenant Governor," following "Governor,".
SC Code § 7-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-40. Names and addresses of candidates for House of Representatives reported to State Election Commission.

 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 addresses of all candidates so filing within twenty-four hours after the close of the filing period for the House of Representatives.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-265.4; 1974 (58) 2400.
SC Code § 7-11-53 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-53. Nomination of substitute candidate.

 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 days from the date the candidacy becomes vacant. If a party fails to name a substitute candidate within thirty days pursuant to Section 7-11-50, that party is prohibited from nominating a candidate for that office.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 337, Section 1, eff June 8, 2006.
SC Code § 7-11-55 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-55. Substitution of candidates when nominee selected by primary election.

 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 conducted as provided in this section. The filing period for this special primary election opens the second Tuesday after the death, disqualification, or approval of the resignation for one week. The special primary election then must be conducted on the second Tuesday immediately following the close of the filing period. A runoff, if necessary, must be held two weeks after the first primary. The nomination must be certified not less than two weeks before the date of the general election. If the nomination is certified two weeks or more before the date of the general election, that office is to be filled at the general election.  If the nomination is certified less than two weeks before the date of the general election, that office must not be filled at the general election but must be filled in a special election to be held on the second Tuesday in the month following the election, provided that the date of the special election to be conducted after the general election may be combined with other necessary elections scheduled to occur within a twenty-eight day period in the manner authorized by Section 7-13-190(D).  The procedures for resigning a candidacy under this section for legitimate nonpolitical reasons are the same as provided in Section 7-11-50.  Where the party nominee was unopposed, each political party registered with the State Election Commission has the privilege of nominating a candidate for the office involved through a special primary election in the same manner and under the same procedures stipulated by this section.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 81, Section 2, eff May 27, 1991.
SC Code § 7-11-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-70. Nomination by petition.

 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 furnish the signatures of more than ten thousand qualified registered electors for any office. The official number of qualified registered electors of the geographical area of any office must be the number of registered electors of such area registered one hundred twenty days prior to the date of the election for which the nomination petition is being submitted.  The petition must be certified to the State Election Commission in the case of national, state, circuit, and multicounty district offices; with the county board of voter registration and elections in the case of countywide or less than countywide offices with the exception of municipal offices; with the clerk of a municipality in case of a municipal office, and the certified petition shall constitute and be kept as a public record.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-400.16; 1952 Code Section 23-313; 1950 (46) 2059; 1956 (49) 1739; 1961 (52) 548; 1964 (53) 1744; 1966 (54) 2340; 1968 (55) 2316; 1972 (57) 2531; 1974 (58) 2124, 2866; 1984 Act No. 405, Section 2, eff May 24, 1984.
SC Code § 7-11-71 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-71. Petitions in election for commissioners of public service districts.

 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 five percent of the total number of electors of the district, whichever is the lesser, if such petitions are otherwise in compliance with this chapter.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 597 eff July 18, 1978.
SC Code § 7-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-80. Form of nominating petition.

 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 statement of purpose; in the case of nomination of candidates, the name of the candidate, the office for which he offers and the date of the election for such office shall be contained in such petition.  (3) Shall contain in separate columns from left to right the following:  (a) Signature of voter and printed name of voter;  (b) Address of residence where registered; and  (c) Precinct of voter.  (4) No single petition page shall contain the signatures of registered voters from different counties.  (5) All signatures of registered voters shall be numbered consecutively.  (6) Petitions with more than one page must have the pages consecutively numbered upon filing with the appropriate authority.  The State Election Commission may furnish petition forms to the county election officials and to interested persons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-400.16:1; 1974 (58) 2866; 1984 Act No. 510, Section 16, eff June 28, 1984.
SC Code § 7-11-85 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-85. Verification of petition; bases for rejection of petitioners.

 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. When a petition requires more than five hundred signatures, every one of the first five hundred signatures must be checked for validity and at least one out of every ten signatures thereafter beginning with the five hundred and first signature must be checked for validity. If the projected number of valid signatures, using this percentage method for the signatures over five hundred plus the number of valid signatures in the first five hundred, total at least the number of signatures required by law on the petition, it must be certified as a valid petition. No petition, however, may be rejected if the number of signatures over five hundred checked using the percentage method plus the number of valid signatures in the first five hundred does not total at least the number required by law. If insufficient signatures are found using the percentage method in order to certify as a valid petition, the county board of voter registration and elections must check every signature over five hundred separately, or such number over five hundred until the required number of valid signatures is found.  If it is a petition seeking to certify a new political party or if the office for which the petition has been submitted comprises more than one county, and using the percentage method of checking does not result in the required number of valid signatures, the executive director of the commission shall designate which counties must check additional signatures.  No signatures on a petition may be rejected if the address of a voter, registration certificate number of a voter, or the precinct of a voter, as required by Section 7-11-80, is missing or incorrect if the signature is otherwise valid. The signature of a voter may only be rejected if it is illegible and cannot be found in the records of the county board of voter registration and elections is missing from the petition, or is not that of the voter, or if the registration of the voter has been deleted for any of the reasons named in items (2) or (3) of Subsection (C) of Section 7-3-20.  The county board of voter registration and elections shall complete a summary form containing the results of checking any petition and must give the completed form to the requesting authority. The form used for this purpose must be prescribed and provided by the executive director.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 263, Section 2, eff January 27, 1984.
SC Code § 7-11-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-90. Unopposed candidates.

 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 be placed upon the primary election ballots but shall be certified for the general election ballots.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-400.76; 1952 Code Section 23-375; 1950 (46) 2059; 1966 (54) 2340.
SC Code § 7-11-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Designation And Nomination Of Candidates|Section 7-11-420. Amounts and proration of assessments to be paid by candidates for State Senator in multi-county districts.

 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 respective districts and shall be prorated among the county committees of the counties comprising the district in proportion to the number of precincts in each county. Provided, if such chairmen of any district fail to reach agreement within three days after the opening for entries the state executive committee shall fix the fee. Provided, further, that in 1966 only the chairmen shall have seven days in which to reach such agreement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-400.75; 1966 (54) 2093, 2340.
SC Code § 7-13-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Conduct Of Elections|Section 7-13-10. Time of general elections for federal, state, and county officers; conduct of general and special elections.

 General elections for Federal, State and county officers in this State shall be held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year at such voting places as have been or may be established by law. All general or special elections held pursuant to the Constitution of this State shall be regulated and conducted according to the rules, principles and provisions herein prescribed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-391; 1952 Code Section 23-302; 1950 (46) 2059; 1966 (54) 2340.
SC Code § 7-13-15 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Conduct Of Elections|Section 7-13-15. Primaries to be conducted by State Election Commission and county boards of voter registration and elections on second Tuesday in June; filing fees.

 (A) This section does not apply to municipal primaries.  (B) Except as provided in subsection (A) or unless otherwise specifically provided for by statute or ordinance, the following primaries must be conducted by the State Election Commission and the county boards of voter registration and elections on the second Tuesday in June of each general election year:  (1) primaries for federal offices, excluding a presidential preference primary for the Office of President of the United States as provided pursuant to Section 7-11-20(B); and  (2) primaries for:  (a) state offices;  (b) offices including more than one county;  (c) countywide and less than countywide offices, specifically including, but not limited to, all school boards and school trustees; and  (d) special purpose district offices, which include, but are not limited to, water, sewer, fire, soil conservation, and other similar district offices.  (C) Filing fees received from candidates filing to run in primary elections may be retained and expended by the State Election Commission to pay for the conduct of primary elections. Any balance in the filing fee accounts or in the primary and general election accounts as of each June thirtieth may be carried forward in these accounts to the succeeding fiscal year and must be expended for the same purposes.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 253, Section 16, eff February 19, 1992; 2007 Act No. 81, Section 2, eff June 19, 2007; 2014 Act No. 256 (H.4732), Section 3, eff June 6, 2014.
SC Code § 7-13-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Conduct Of Elections|Section 7-13-20. Time of general election for certain county officers.

 There shall be a general election for county supervisors, county superintendents of education, sheriffs, coroners and clerks of the courts of common pleas held in each county at every alternate general election, reckoning from the year 1960, except in those counties in which the term of office of any such officers may be for a period other than four years. In such cases elections to fill such offices shall be held at the general election next preceding the expiration of any such term of office.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-392; 1952 Code Section 23-303; 1942 Code Section 2350; 1932 Code Section 2350; Civ. C. '22 Section 283; Civ. C. '12 Section 280; Civ. C. '02 Section 253; G. S. 160, 642, 701; R. S. 211; 1882 (17) 1125; 1885 (19) 144; 1889 (20) 281; 1966 (54) 2340.
SC Code § 7-13-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 7 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Conduct Of Elections|Section 7-13-30. Time of election of probate judges.

 The probate judge in every county shall be elected at every alternate general election, reckoning from the year 1958.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-394; 1952 Code Section 23-305; 1942 Code Section 2350; 1932 Code Section 2350; Civ. C. '22 Section 283; Civ. C. '12 Section 280; Civ. C. '02 Section 253; G. S. 160, 642, 701; R. S. 211; 1882 (17) 1125; 1885 (19) 144; 1889 (20) 281; 1966 (54) 2340.