South Carolina § 7-5-120 - Qualifications for registration; persons disqualified from registering or voting.

§ 7-5-120. Qualifications for registration; persons disqualified from registering or voting.

(A) Every citizen of this State and the United States who applies for registration must be registered if he meets the following qualifications:

(1) meets the age qualification as provided in Section 4, Article II of the Constitution of this State;

(2) is not laboring under disabilities named in the Constitution of 1895 of this State; and

(3) is a resident in the county and in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote.

(B) A person is disqualified from being registered or voting if he:

(1) is mentally incompetent as adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction; or

(2) is serving a term of imprisonment resulting from a conviction of a crime; or

(3) is convicted of a felony or offenses against the election laws, unless the disqualification has been removed by service of the sentence, including probation and parole time unless sooner pardoned.

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 23-62; 1952 Code SECTION 23-62; 1950 (46) 2059; 1961 (52) 50; 1963 (53) 155; 1967 (55) 657; 1974 (58) 2188; 1981 Act No. 1 SECTION 2, eff January 14, 1981; 1986 Act No. 345, SECTION 1, eff March 7, 1986; 1994 Act No. 365, SECTION 1, eff May 3, 1994; 1996 Act No. 408, SECTION 1, eff on the ratification of the amendment to Section 4, Article II of the Constitution of this State to change the age qualification to vote (ratified March 25, 1997).

Editor's Note

1981 Act No. 1, SECTION 2A, provides as follows:

"Section 2A. The provision of paragraph (b) of Section 7-5-120, as amended in Section 2, shall apply to all persons falling within the amended provision regardless of the date of their conviction."