Wednesday, August 12, 2009

SC Fusion Sore-Loser Statute

South Carolina law does not prohibit “electoral fusion,” which allows a candidate to be nominated by more than one certified political party for the same elected office in a partisan election. Candidates, therefore, may seek multiple party nominations for the same office.

But a candidate must be nominated and/or win all the primaries they enter to be on the ballot. So if you lose any of the primaries you are off the ballot, the “sore-loser statute.”

Michael H. Drucker
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