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2024 Op. S.C. Att'y Gen. 1 (2024)

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ALAN WILSON
ATTORNEY GENERAL
January 26, 2024
Howard M. Knapp
Executive Director
South Carolina Election Commission
P.O. Box 5987
Columbia, SC 29250
Dear Director Knapp:
Attorney General Alan Wilson has referred your letter to the Opinions section. Your letter
states the following:
The South Carolina State Election Commission (SEC) writes to request an opinion
as to scope of political activity covered by South Carolina Code of Laws § 7-25-
180, which states:
(A) It is unlawful for a person to distribute any type of campaign
literature or place any political posters within five hundred feet of
any entrance used by the voters to enter the polling place, during
polling hours on an election day and during the early voting period.
The poll manager shall use every reasonable means to keep the area
within five hundred feet of any such entrance clear of political
literature and displays, and the county and municipal law
enforcement officers, upon request of a poll manager, shall remove
or cause to be removed any material within five hundred feet of any
such entrance distributed or displayed in violation of this section.
(B) A candidate may wear within five hundred feet of the polling
place a label no larger than four and one-fourth inches by four and
one-fourth inches that contains the candidate's name and the office
he is seeking. If the candidate enters the polling place, he may not
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