2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 7 - Elections
CHAPTER 13 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
Section 7-13-1700. Instruction of managers and clerks in use of machines; appointment of manager or clerk in emergency.
Not more than thirty days before each primary or general election, the board of voter registration and elections or other electoral board must instruct the managers and clerks appointed to serve in the election in the use of the machine and their duties in connection therewith; and the board of voter registration and elections shall not permit a person to serve as a manager or clerk, if there are clerks, who is not fully qualified to conduct an election with the machine. However, nothing in this section may be construed to prevent the appointment of a person as a manager or clerk of election to fill a vacancy in an emergency.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-410; 1952 Code Section 23-410; 1950 (46) 2059; 1996 Act No. 434, Section 13, eff June 4, 1996.
Code Commissioner's Note
Pursuant to the directive in 2014 Act No. 196, Section 8, at the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to county election commissions or commissioners or county boards of voter registration were changed to the "Board of Voter Registration and Elections" and board members as appropriate.
Effect of Amendment
The 1996 amendment substituted "more than thirty days" for "less than ten nor more than twenty-one days", inserted "primary or general" preceding "election, the commissioners", substituted "must instruct the managers and clerks appointed to serve in the election in the use" for "shall instruct or cause to be instructed in the use", substituted "therewith; and the commissioners shall not permit a person" for "therewith the managers and clerks, if clerks be appointed, appointed to serve in such election, and they shall not permit any person", deleted "properly" following "who is not fully qualified", substituted "However, nothing in this section may be" for "But nothing herein shall be", deleted ", if there be clerks," preceding "of election to fill", and made nonsubstantive changes.
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