SC school board member launches write-in campaign after missing election deadline
Voters in one local school district will notice a missing candidate for one seat on the school board.
Three seats are up this November on the board for Lexington 3, which covers the Batesburg-Leesville area. But only two candidates, board members Frances Bouknight and Cheryl Burgess, filed to run by the Aug. 15 deadline to appear on the ballot for the at-large seats.
A third board member, Gariane Gunter, did not file in time to appear on the ballot and is launching a write-in campaign for the third seat.
“I have a lifelong dedication to Lexington County School District Three and will definitely be running for re-election, just a little differently this time,” Gunter said in a statement to The State.
A write-in campaign depends on voters adding a candidate’s name themselves in the write-in space on their ballot. With only two other candidates in the race, whoever gets the most people to write in their name in the small community in western Lexington County will take the third seat for the next four years.
Gunter is running for her fourth term on the board.
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