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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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