Comments on: South Carolina Ballot Access Bloodbath: One Senator’s Handiwork http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/ Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.37 By: Karen Martn http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-609 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:27:13 +0000 http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-609 I would have thought the SC Supreme Court would give weight to the more current law re: filing of SEI from 2010

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3066.htm

The commission shall establish a system of electronic filing for all disclosures and reports required pursuant to Chapter 13, Title 8 and Chapter 17, Title 2 from all persons and entities subject to its jurisdiction. These disclosures and reports must be filed using an Internet-based filing system as prescribed by the commission. Reports and disclosures filed with the Ethics Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives for legislative offices must be in a format such that these filings can be forwarded to the State Ethics Commission using an Internet-based system.

]]> By: Christian Adams http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-607 Wed, 16 May 2012 07:05:49 +0000 http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-607 Karen – not sure that the Supreme Court is activist here.  My read is that they took a very strict plain language approach to the law.  The law exempts certain individuals from the simulataneous filing.  I understand what happened here.  My suggestion to new candidates is that the very first thing they do is to reserve an afternoon and go to the library and pull out the election code and read it cover to cover.  Had any of these candidates read the code, they would have discovered the law required a simultaneous filing of the SEI with the filing forms.  It is plainly in the statute. 

]]> By: Karen Martin http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-605 Tue, 15 May 2012 05:44:08 +0000 http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-605 Thanks for noticing this ballot fiasco in South Carolina. http://www.OperationLostVote.org has been launched via 6 press conferences across our state today to help any ousted candidates who want to move forward as petition candidates. This can happen in any state with a corrupt legislature and an activist Supreme Court. This should be a national story, challengers tossed from ballots while incumbents enjoy a different election law standard.

]]> By: Karen Martin http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-604 Tue, 15 May 2012 05:18:01 +0000 http://www.electionlawcenter.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-ballot-access-bloodbath-one-senators-handiwork-2/#comment-604 Thanks for noticing this ballot fiasco in South Carolina. http://www.OperationLostVote.org has been launched via 6 press conferences across our state today to help any ousted candidates who want to move forward as petition candidates. This can happen in any state with a corrupt legislature and an activist Supreme Court. This should be a national story, challengers tossed from ballots while incumbents enjoy a different election law standard.

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