Are you planning on voting in this year's midterm elections?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yes.  I'll be voting in the Republican primary, doing my best to ensure that Bauer doesn't win the gubernatorial nod.  By the time of the general election, I expect that there will likely be an amendment or two to vote, but it is unlikely that any of the general election races other than Superintendent of Education will be competitive.  That race usually skews toward the Democrats since the Republicans of late have tended to nominate doctrinaire voucher supporters who are seen as being in favor of dismantling public education altogether.

Note: I wouldn't mind a decent voucher system, but the sorts of proposals that have been made the past few years would basically divert $1000 to $2000 to the parents of people who would have put their children in private schools anyway, so they aren't really voucher systems that would do anything to actually improve the schools

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yes, of course (R)

More importantly, I'm voting in our county general election in August for Shelby County's next Mayor, Mark Luttrell!

Your county general elections are separate from your state general elections?  I didn't know that was done.

County elections in South Carolina aren't separate, but municipal elections are.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

County elections in South Carolina aren't separate, but municipal elections are.

Is there a reason for that?

Statewide elections are run by the State Election Commission in conjunction with the County Election Commissions.  State and County offices and election dates are set by State law, not County law. (This is a holdover from the pre-Reynolds v. Sims days when each county's delegation in the General Assembly also served as that county's council.)

By contrast, the municipalities run the elections and set the election dates themselves.  Some do choose to set the date for the general election, but most do not.  (The town I live in uses the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, but in odd-numbered years instead of the even-numbered years of the general elections.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

County elections in South Carolina aren't separate, but municipal elections are.

Is there a reason for that?

Statewide elections are run by the State Election Commission in conjunction with the County Election Commissions.  State and County offices and election dates are set by State law, not County law. (This is a holdover from the pre-Reynolds v. Sims days when each county's delegation in the General Assembly also served as that county's council.)

By contrast, the municipalities run their elections and set the election dates themselves.  Some do choose to set the date for the general election, but most do not.  (The town I live in uses the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, but in odd-numbered years instead of the even-numbered years of the general elections.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Weird dates for local elections are why I'll always remember 9/11/2001 was a Tuesday, as there was a local election that day where I was living then.