Two bills in South Carolina that would injure minor parties or independent candidates have not made enough headway to pass in calendar year 2009. They are H3746 and H3067.
H3746 would make it far more difficult to get independent candidates on the ballot, and H3067 would ban fusion. Either bill could pass in 2010, because South Carolina has two-year legislative sessions, but they won’t pass in 2009.
Bravo. The do-nothing SC General Assembly has done what it does best–nothing. Safe for another year.
The backwards politics of my home state, the most anti-labor, anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-anything except rich white heterosexual Christian white-collar men, has just proven itself to be too lazy to be harmful this time around.
Jason,
Be glad for that! Of course, I am sure they did plenty of harm, but at least not to fusion or independent campaigns.
Keep our eyes open though. I wouldn’t be shocked to see the Election Commission staff try to pull this stuff on their own without legislative approval.