Eugene Platt, Green Party nominee for South Carolina State House (115th district) will ask the Election Commission to place him on the November ballot, at an administrative hearing on Friday, June 27. His ballot status is threatened because, after he was nominated by the Green Party in convention, he was defeated in the South Carolina Democratic primary. South Carolina law seems to say that someone who wins one party nomination, and tries and fails to win another nomination, cannot be listed on the November ballot. On the other hand, there is a plausible theory that the law only applies to candidates who first lose a party nomination in one party, and then only afterwards obtains the nomination of another party. Generally, states can ban “sore losers”, but Pratt isn’t a “sore loser” because he won his first nomination battle. He also won the nomination of the Working Families Party. South Carolina does permit two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate.

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