SC Representative Challenges Election Loss

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - State Rep. Wallace Scarborough is challenging the loss of his Charleston-area House seat in last week’s election.

The Republican lawmaker lost to Democrat Anne Peterson Hutto by 211 votes.

But Scarborough told The Post and Courier of Charleston that he will argue more than 700 of the nearly 18,000 votes in the House District 115 race were cast illegally.

He says almost 500 voters had moved from the district while 185 moved to new addresses in the district but didn’t cast fail-safe ballots as required by law.

Scarborough also contends 27 voters in one precinct failed to sign the vote roll.

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