Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4026 Primary Sponsor:T.C. Alexander Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Candidates on election day Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Date Tabled:19940201 Computer Document Number:WWW/30095DW.93 Introduced Date:19930414 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940201 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:T.C. Alexander Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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4026 House 19940201 Tabled in Committee 25
4026 House 19930414 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 7-25-180, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF CAMPAIGN LITERATURE ON ELECTION DAY WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING WHERE A POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE A CANDIDATE TO APPEAR AND GREET VOTERS IF HE IS NOT INTIMIDATING, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE CANDIDATE MAY WEAR A LABEL IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS A CANDIDATE AND THE OFFICE HE IS SEEKING AND PROVIDE CONDITIONS ON THE WEARING OF THE LABEL.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 7-25-180 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 393 of 1990, is further amended to read:
"Section 7-25-180. (A) It is unlawful on an election day within two hundred feet of any entrance used by the voters to enter the polling place for a person to distribute any type of campaign literature or place any political posters. The poll manager shall use every reasonable means to keep the area within two hundred feet of any such entrance clear of political literature and displays, and the county and municipal law enforcement officers, upon request of a poll manager, shall remove or cause to be removed any material within two hundred feet of any such entrance distributed or displayed in violation of this section.
(B) A candidate may appear and greet voters in line as long as he is not intimidating voters or interfering with the orderly election process. A candidate or his representative may wear within two hundred feet of the polling place a label no larger than three inches by five inches that contains the candidate's name and the office he is seeking. If the candidate or his representative, other than a watcher as provided for in Section 7-13-860, enters the polling place, he may not display any of this identification, including but not limited to, campaign stickers or buttons.
(C) Nothing in this section may be interpreted to prohibit a registered voter from wearing any campaign sticker, button, t-shirt, or hat while waiting to vote."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.