Reece Supporters Planning Petition Campaign
Tommie Reece is hoping to give Sen. Mike Fair some competition in November.
Tommie Reece and her supporters will soon begin a petition drive to try to get Reece on the ballot in November's general election in her bid for the District 6 seat in South Carolina Senate.
Reece, a Greenville County School Board member who seeks to unseat longtime incumbent Sen. Mike Fair, was ordered ineligible just three days before the June 12 primary because she did not file her statement of economic interest at the same time she officially declared her intention to run for the seat.
Fair was able to defeat Sullivan by a 54 percent to 46 percent margin on Tuesday.
Reece told Patch on Sunday that she plans on beginning her petition drive in earnest by this weekend, and that she and her volunteers were gathering information and strategizing in the meantime.
By South Carolina law, Reece will have to get the signatures of five percent of the active registered voters in the county to qualify for the November ballot.
After getting kicked off the ballot, Reece filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to get back on the ballot, but was unsuccessful.
Would you vote for Reece if she successfully got on the ballot in November? Tell us in the poll below.
eric wood
11:27 am on Monday, June 18, 2012
We all need to sign the petition to get Tommie Reece on the ballot in November, not because we are her supports, but we because we support choice. The primary we just had was a disaster, partially due to the lack of candidates and part because a mere 10% of the registered voters actually participated. Let's try to get all registered voters to participate in November by adding choices to the ballot.
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