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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.104 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19990112 Primary Sponsor:Passailaigue All Sponsors:Passailaigue, Leventis, Grooms Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\elp\008none.efd.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 11 SJ Subject:Elections, ballots; None of These Candidates to be included as selection on History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19990112 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee Senate 19981118 Prefiled, referred to Committee 11 SJ Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND ARTICLE 3, CHAPTER 13, TITLE 7 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO ELECTION BALLOTS, BY ADDING SECTION 7-13-324 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT IN ALL GENERAL, SPECIAL, OR PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE FOR ANY OFFICE, BALLOTS MUST CONTAIN A "NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES" SELECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 3, Chapter 13, Title 7 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 7-13-324. (A) In all general, special, or primary elections in this State for any office, every ballot shall contain for each office an additional line equivalent to the lines on which the candidates' names appear with the following selection: `None of These Candidates.' This selection shall be placed at the end of the group of lines containing the names of the candidates for that office. Further, the `None of These Candidates' selection shall contain a square in which the voter may express his choice of that line in the same manner as he would express his choice of a candidate.
(B) Only votes cast for the named candidates are counted in determining nomination or election to any office. However, the number of ballots on which the `None of These Candidates' selection was chosen must be listed following the names of the candidates and the number of their votes in every posting, abstract, and proclamation of the results of the election.
(C) Every sample ballot or other instruction to voters prescribed or approved by law or authority must clearly explain that the voter may mark his choice of the line `None of These Candidates' if he has not voted for any candidate for the office."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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