Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4686 Primary Sponsor:Hodges Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Elections, managers of Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:PT/22345DW.94 Introduced Date:19940208 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940208 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Hodges McElveen Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4686 House 19940208 Introduced, read first time, 25
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TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-810, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE POWERS OF THE MANAGERS OF ELECTIONS, SO AS TO ADD A PROVISION WHICH WOULD AUTHORIZE ANY CANDIDATE TO PROTEST AN ELECTION IN WHICH HE IS A CANDIDATE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7-17-30, WHEN THE PROTEST IS BASED IN WHOLE OR IN PART ON EVIDENCE DISCOVERED AFTER THE ELECTION, AND PROVIDE WHAT THIS EVIDENCE MAY INCLUDE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 7-13-810 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 357 of 1990, is further amended to read:
"Section 7-13-810. The managers of election shall prevent any a person from voting when they have good reason to believe the person has already voted. They shall refuse to allow any a person to vote who is not a registered elector or who has become disqualified for any cause to vote in such the voting precinct. They may also may prevent any voter from consuming more than five minutes in voting, but no manager shall may examine, read, or handle the ballot being voted or about to be voted by a voter or interfere in any way with the voting of any a voter otherwise than herein provided in this section. Any An elector or a qualified watcher may, and it is the duty of the managers of the election to, may challenge the vote of any a person who may be known or suspected not to be a qualified voter. However, the challenges by persons other than a manager must be addressed to the manager and not directly to the voter. The manager shall then shall present the challenge to the voter and act in accordance with the provisions provided for in this section. All challenges must be made before the time a voter receives a paper ballot or enters into a voting machine, and no challenge may be considered after that time. However, challenges may be made at any time before the opening of return-addressed envelopes and the removal of `Ballot Herein' envelopes from them as to absentee voters. Nothing contained from them affects the right of any an elector or a qualified watcher to challenge the vote of any a person which is fraudulent or when the challenge is based on evidence discovered after the vote is cast. A candidate may protest an election in which he is a candidate pursuant to Section 7-17-30 when the protest is based in whole or in part on evidence discovered after the election. This evidence may include, but is not limited to, after-discovered evidence of voters who have voted in a precinct or for a district office other than the one in which they are entitled by law to vote."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.