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In municipal elections, a person seeking election by write-in votes would be required to file a declaration “with the appropriate authority” no later than 14 days after the closing of the candidate filing...
This bill would allow local governments to hold ranked choice elections and primaries for city, county, and other local offices. In this style of election, also known as “instant runoff voting,” voters rank...
This bill would create pretrial diversion courts for juveniles who commit certain first-time, nonviolent status offenses (that is, acts that are only illegal because of a person’s age) or “delinquent acts...
This bill would require primary elections for county, state, and federal offices (except for president and vice president) to be nonpartisan and open to all voters. The top two candidates in a primary would...
This bill would make several positive changes to South Carolina’s system of juvenile justice. It would:
This bill would require every county library to comply with a vague censorship rule in order to receive state funding.
Specifically, all county libraries would have to certify that they “do not...