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SMITH v. HENDRIX

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265 S.C. 417 (1975)

219 S.E.2d 312

Joseph SMITH, Appellant, v. Samuel HENDRIX, Chairman of the Lexington County Registration and Elections Commission and Curtis Shealy, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

October 21, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Taylor, Esq., of Dent, Kirkland, Taylor & Wilson, West Columbia, for Appellant.

Messrs. Donald V. Myers, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Columbia, and James E. Barfield, of Long, Barfield, Bouknight, Nicholson and Davis, Lexington, for Respondents.

Henry H. Taylor, Esq., of Dent, Kirkland, Taylor & Wilson, West Columbia, for Appellant, in Reply.

October 21, 1975.

RHODES, Justice:

Petitioner-appellant, Joseph Smith, seeks a recount of the votes cast in an election in which he was a candidate contending that all votes should have been invalidated in instances where the voter had voted both a straight party ticket and for a specific individual candidate of the opposite party on the same ballot. This practice is referred to as "crossover voting", and it is undisputed that these votes were counted in the...

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