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 Executive  Committee  Voter  ID  Resolution  

 
Whereas  the  SC  Republican  Party  holds  the  security  and  counting  of  every  voting  
citizen’s  ballot  as  essential  to  the  equal  protection  of  every  citizen;  and  
   
Whereas  the  SC  Republican  Party  is  committed  to  having  a  voting  system  that  
ensures  that  only  legally  qualified  ballots  are  cast  in  order  to  protect  the  rights  of  
all  voters;  and    
   
Whereas  the  SC  Republican  Party  Executive  Committee  adopted  improvement  of  
the  system  of  identifying  legally  qualified  voters,  “Voter  ID”  as  a  legislative  
priority;  and  
   
Whereas  the  SC  Republican  House  leadership  passed  strong  Voter  ID  legislation;  
and  the  Republican  Senators  and  House  Members  on  the  conference  committee  
adopted  strong  legislation  to  be  approved  by  both  bodies.  
   
Whereas  even  though  there  are  more  than  enough  self-­‐identified  Republican  
Senators  in  the  Senate  Republican  Caucus    to  bring  the  conference  committee  
report  to  a  final  vote  for  passage  ,  the  legislation  failed  because  Senators  
Knotts,  Leatherman,  O'Dell  and  Rankin  did  not  vote  with  their  Republican  
colleagues  to  end  a  Democratic  filibuster.    
   
Therefore,  be  it  resolved  that  the  SC  Republican  Party  Executive  Committee  
praises  the  SC  Republican  House  for  expeditiously  seeking  to  remedy  the  
deficiencies  in  South  Carolina  election  laws  in  protecting  ballots  of  legally  
qualified  voters;  and  
   
Be  it  further  resolved  that  the  SC  Republican  Executive  Committee  calls  upon  all  
Republican  members  of  the  Senate  and  the  SC  General  Assembly  to  support  the  
adoption  of  real  protections  for  every  legally  cast  ballot  in  South  Carolina  and  to  
adopt  and  pass  the  conference  committee  report  on  H  3418.