South Carolina Voters Confused Because Elizabeth Colbert Busch Is On The Ballot Twice

[Tx4obama]

South Carolina Voters Confused Because Elizabeth Colbert Busch Is On The Ballot Twice

Voters in South Carolina’s special House election are expressing confusion because Elizabeth Colbert Busch appears on the ballot twice.

Joseph Debney, the Director of Election for Charleston County, says any candidate who qualifies to be on the ballot as the candidate for more than one party can do so, however , the candidate can only receive one voter per voter, “voters can only vote for her one time. You can only get one vote in this election. Those votes together will be tallied for her, so she’ll get the totals for the Democratic and the Working Families nomination.”

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Notice that it is okay for Colbert Busch to be on the ballot twice, but voters can only vote for her once. If a voter checks her name twice, their vote will be disqualified. This might be legal in South Carolina, but it certainly looks like a way for votes for Colbert Busch to be thrown out.

The election tonight should be close. Polling shows a statistical tie Sanford and Busch. If even a handful of Colbert Busch voters have their ballots tossed because they voted for her twice, that could be enough to swing this election to Sanford. Mark Sanford has erased a nine point deficit in a week. The heavily Republican district is naturally tilted towards him, but this sort of confusion will only help the unpopular Sanford win.

Full article: http://www.politicususa.com/south-carolina-voters-confused-elizabeth-colbert-busch-ballot.html

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Well, she lost that election

right there.

[hrmjustin]

2. Hopefully they will figure it out.

It is very common here in NY for a candidate to be the nominee of multiple parties.

[winter is coming]

3. Why would/should it be counted as an "overvote" if it's the same individual? n/t

[tridim]

4. Because she's a Democrat. nt

[LiberalFighter]

7. Agreed! It should be determined on intent of the voter.

[progressoid]

5. What the f...?

Is it too much to ask to have a simple vote?

[EC]

6. Did she have her name listed twice?

or is that Working Families nomination a phoney put up by the repubs? They are good at creating bogus candidates, now maybe they are creating bogus parties to screw things up. Was it SC where they had that simpleton Greene show up out of no where as a Dem?

[tabbycat31]

9. I can't speak for other states

But in NY, the Working Families Party is a legit organization and the same candidate can be on both the Dem and WFP line.

[bigwillq]

12. That's how it is in CT as well (nt)

[Jim Lane]

14. It's a sensible choice for a Democrat in a Republican district.

I'd figure that a lot of hard-core Republicans in the district might draw the line at voting for Sanford, given his history, but would still have a visceral problem with voting Democratic -- the enemy. She probably picked up some votes because people like that could vote for her yet not be voting for the party that's headed by a Muslim socialist Kenyan impostor.

[LiberalFighter]

8. If any of her votes are thrown out based on that it should be challenged

provided it would had changed the outcome. Intent should be the criteria.

[Wednesdays]

10. Yeah! If it's found that the intent was to vote for a Democrat, it doesn't count.

[bigwillq]

11. So were like 5 people on my ballot in Nov

They were all DEMS but were also listed as a third party.
I voted for them for third party.
Why would anybody vote for a person twice?

[brooklynite]

13. New York has had multi-party endorsements for decades

People don't over-vote.