South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The Town of McBee Municipal Election Commission did not believe Sydney Baker when she testified that she did not “request” absentee ballots for other voters; rather, she assisted other voters in requesting their own absentee ballots. Since there was no ...

Tagged with: Elections

Where media entities sought to unseal the existing district court docket and filings as well as any future proceedings, and to vacate the nondisclosure order blocking their state public records requests, the appeal was dismissed because the district court effectively ...

In light of the General Assembly’s passage of legislation designed to ensure the safety of voters and the integrity of the voting process, we dismiss petitioners’ appeal as moot. Duggins v. Lucas (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-068-20, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) ...

Plaintiffs seek a ruling that South Carolina law permits all South Carolina registered voters to vote by absentee ballot in our upcoming primary and general elections. Recent legislation has rendered the question moot with respect to the primary. However, as ...

Only one vote separated the respondent-candidate and the appellant-candidate in a town council election. Four voters’ residency was questioned, and their provisional ballots were sealed and set aside but remain available for counting. The town election commission should have counted ...

Where respondents placed two separate bond proposals in the same referendum, requiring voters to support both or neither, the referendum question was invalid. We reverse the circuit court’s order upholding the validity of the referendum. Pursuant to the referendum question, ...

It was not necessary for a candidate for the office of sheriff to hold a certification from South Carolina to qualify as a “certified law enforcement officer”. We affirm the decision of the circuit court, which declined to remove Clarke ...

Even though the Richland Election Board found that appellant was a qualified voter and allowed her to remain on the ballot for a Richland County position on the District 5 Richland-Lexington School Board of Trustees, since there was some evidence ...

Tagged with: Schools & School Boards

De La Fuente v. South Carolina Democratic Party (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-091-17, 11 pp.) (Cameron McGowan Currie, S.J.) 3:16-cv-00322; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff’s social media campaign for U.S. President, none of which was directed at or specific to South Carolina, did ...

Tagged with: Constitutional

Marcellus v. Va. State Board of Elections (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-046-17, 20 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 16-1331, Feb. 21, 2017; USDC at Richmond, Va. (Lauck, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit upholds a Virginia statute that says only candidates ...

Tagged with: candidates