Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4042 Primary Sponsor:Cobb-Hunter Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Early voting Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:DKA/4542AL.93 Introduced Date:19930414 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930414 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Cobb-Hunter Hodges White Inabinett Jennings Beatty Davenport McElveen Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4042 House 19930414 Introduced, read first time, 25
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 7-15-115 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR EARLY VOTING.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 7-15-115. (A) Any qualified voter is eligible to vote early by personal appearance. To be entitled to vote early, a person must make an application in person at the county board of registration at the time when the applicant desires to vote. The office of the county board of registration is also the early voting precinct for the county. No other early voting precinct may be allowed.
(B) An application must be in writing in the form prescribed by the State Election Commission and signed and attested to by the applicant and a witness. The application must include the person's name and address at which he is registered to vote.
(C) The period for early voting by personal appearance begins on the twentieth day before election day and continues through the fourth day before election day. For a special runoff election, the period begins on the tenth day before the election. If the date prescribed for beginning the period is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state holiday, the period begins on the next regular business day. If because of the date for which an election is ordered, it is not possible to begin early voting by personal appearance on the prescribed date, the early voting period shall begin on the earliest date practicable after the prescribed date as set by the authority ordering the election.
(D) Early voting by personal appearance must be conducted on the weekdays of the early voting period and during the hours that the county board of registration is regularly open for business and on Saturday during hours established by the State Election Commission. The clerk of the county board of registration shall follow the procedure for accepting an absentee ballot under this chapter with the modifications necessary for the conduct of early voting.
(E) Notice of the time and place for early voting must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
(F) The State Election Commission shall promulgate procedures for the conduct of early voting."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.