Price v. Horry County Election Commission

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court
Windy Price, Appellant,
v.
Horry County Election Commission, South Carolina
Election Commission, Jake Evans, Josephine Isom, and
Charlene Taylor, Defendants,
of whom Horry County Election Commission and South
Carolina Election Commission are Respondents.
Appellate Case No. 2012-213489
Appeal From Horry County
J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge
Memorandum Opinion No. 2013-MO-018
Submitted June 4, 2013 – Filed June 12, 2013
AFFIRMED
Christine Companion Varnado and Jason Scott Luck,
both of Seibels Law Firm, of Charleston, for Appellant.
Robert E. Tyson, Jr., and Bess Jones DuRant, both of
Sowell Gray Stepp and Laffitte, LLC., of Columbia,
Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Attorney
General Julius Carnes Nicholson, III, of Columbia, for
Respondents.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following
authorities: Appellant's Arguments IA and III: Cole v. Town of Atl. Beach Election
Comm'n, 393 S.C. 264, 712 S.E.2d 440 (2011); Gecy v. Bagwell, 372 S.C. 237, 642
S.E.2d 569 (2007); Taylor v. Town of Atl. Beach Election Comm'n, 363 S.C. 8, 609
S.E.2d 500 (2005); Butler v. Town of Edgefield, 328 S.C. 238, 493 S.E.2d 838(1997); S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-130 (2004); S.C. Code Ann. § 7-13-35 (Supp.
2012); S.C. Code Ann. § 7-7-1000 (Supp. 2012); S.C. Code Ann. § 7-7-910(B)(2)
(Supp. 2012); Appellant's Argument IB: Butler v. Town of Edgefield, supra;Appellant's Argument II: Taylor v. Town of Atl. Beach Election Comm'n, supra;
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-4-100 (2007); Appellant's Argument IV: USAA Prop. & Cas.
Ins. Co. v. Clegg, 377 S.C. 643, 661 S.E.2d 791 (2008) (issues which were neither
raised to nor ruled upon by the circuit court are not preserved for appellate review);
Staubes v. City of Folly Beach, 339 S.C. 406, 529 S.E.2d 543 (2000) (an issue
cannot be raised for the first time on appeal, but must have been raised to and ruled
upon by the trial court to be preserved for appellate review).
AFFIRMED.
TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ.,
concur.