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South Carolina Statutes § 7-15-670 Declaration by covered voter

⤴ Up to Article 9: South Carolina Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act

Statute Text

(A) A covered voter may use the declaration accompanying a federal write-in absentee ballot as an application for a military-overseas ballot simultaneously with the submission of the federal write-in absentee ballot, if the declaration is received by the appropriate election official by seven o'clock p.m. on election day.
(B) To receive the benefits of this article, a covered voter must inform the appropriate election official that the voter is a covered voter. Methods of informing the appropriate election official that a voter is a covered voter include:
(1) the use of a federal postcard application or federal write-in absentee ballot;
(2) the use of an overseas address on an approved voter registration application or ballot application; and
(3) the inclusion on an approved voter registration application or ballot application of other information sufficient to identify the voter as a covered voter.

History

Added by 2015 S.C. Acts, Act No. 79 ( HB 3154 ) , s 5 , eff. 6/11/2015 .

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