South Carolina Statutes

§ 7-13-1720 — Unopposed candidates in primaries.

South Carolina·Title 7 ELECTIONS·Ch. 13 CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS

In any party primary in which voting machines shall be used in one or more voting precincts, the name of any unopposed candidate for nomination for any office shall be omitted from the ballot used in any such voting machine, and such unopposed candidate shall be declared to have received the total number of votes cast in such voting precinct.

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Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 23-412; 1952 Code SECTION 23-412; 1950 (46) 2059.

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