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Independent candidates in South Carolina
The South Carolina Code of Laws makes provision for Independent candidates to be placed on the ballot in partisan elections. Nomination by petition is the method by which this happens. A prospective candidate must persuade a certain number of registered voters to sign her or his petition and submit the petitions by a specified date. In 2018, it is Monday, July 16, 2018.
Petition candidacy for Governor of South Carolina
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.
Code Commissioner’s Note
Pursuant to the directive in 2014 Act No. 196, Section 8, at the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to county election commissions or commissioners or county boards of voter registration were changed to the “Board of Voter Registration and Elections” and board members as appropriate.
Effect of Amendment
The 1984 amendment substituted “one hundred and twenty” for “ninety” in the last sentence of the first paragraph, and made grammatical changes at various locations.
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