BAILEY v. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ELECTION

Opinion No. 27975.

430 S.C. 268 (2020)

844 S.E.2d 390

Rhodes BAILEY, Robert Wehrman, South Carolina Democratic Party, and DCCC, Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ELECTION COMMISSION and Marci Andino as Executive Director of the State Election Commission, Defendants-Respondents, and South Carolina Republican Party, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed May 27, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher James Bryant and Bruce V. Spiva , both of Perkins Coie, LLP, of Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Petitioners.

William Grayson Lambert and Mary Elizabeth Crum , of Burr & Forman, LLP; Karl Smith Bowers Jr. , of Bowers Law Office; J. Robert Bolchoz , of Robert Bolchoz, LLC; and Harrison D. Brant , of the South Carolina Election Commission, all of Columbia, for Defendants-Respondents.

Robert E. Tyson, Jr. and Vordman Carlisle Traywick III , both of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, of Columbia, for Intervenors.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson , Deputy Solicitor General J. Emory Smith Jr. , and Assistant Attorney General Harley Kirkland , all of the South Carolina Attorney General's Office, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae.


Plaintiffs1 contend in this lawsuit that—in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic—existing South Carolina law permits all South Carolina registered voters to vote by absentee ballot in the June 9, 2020 primary election...

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