Dukes v. Redmond

This is an election protest challenging the 2002 mayoral election for the City of Johnsonville. Appellant Dukes lost the election to respondent Redmond by a three-vote margin. Dukes protested, claiming nine voters were non-residents and therefore ineligible to vote in the municipal election under S.C.Code Ann. § 7-5-610 (Supp.2003). 1 The Florence County Board of Canvassers (Board) 2 found Dukes’s protest was procedurally barred and, in any event, only one voter had voted illegally 3 which did not affect the result of the election. Dukes’s protest was denied. We reverse.

ISSUES

1. Is Dukes’s…