Ballenger v. City of Wellford

Lewis, Chief Justice:

The question in this appeal is whether the failure to provide a separate ballot box within the territory proposed to be *449annexed, as required by Section 5-3-70, South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, invalidates an election held to annex an adjacent area to the City of Wellford, in Spartanburg County. The trial court held that the failure to provide the ballot box within the territory to be annexed invalidated the election, and this appeal by the City followed. We affirm.

An annexation election was held in June 1981 for the purpose of annexing to the City of Wellford an…