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Eugene Platt to run for state House in SC as a Green

By Ross Levin on October 17, 2009 1:10 PM

Eugene Platt, the only elected Green in South Carolina, will be running to represent the 115th district in the State House of Representatives.  He is currently on the James Island Public Service Commission, and ran for the same House seat in 2008, but was thrown off the ballot. …

Federal Court Upholds South Carolina’s Method of Restricting Fusion

By Kimberly Wilder on August 12, 2009 8:51 PM

from Ballot Access News / August 12th, 2009
Federal Court Upholds South Carolina’s Method of Restricting Fusion

On August 12, U.S. District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, upheld South Carolina election laws that permit fusion, but which also say that if someone gets the nomination of one party first, and later tries to get the nomination of a second party and fails, then the first nomination is voided.

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