Beaufort County v. South Carolina State Election Commission

JUDGMENT FOR RESPONDENTS

Chief Justice TOAL.

Petitioners seek a declaration from this Court in its original jurisdiction that the General Assembly has neither authorized the State Election Commission or the County Election Commissions to conduct a Presidential Preference Primary in 2012, nor mandated that petitioners bear the financial burden of conducting the primary. Because we are firmly persuaded that the General Assembly, through passage of Provisos 79.6 and 79.12 for fiscal year 2011-2012, intended to suspend the temporal limitation in S.C.Code Ann. § 7-ll-20(B)(2) (Supp. 2010), we enter…