{"id":4487,"date":"2016-10-07T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2016-10-09T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:36:14","slug":"network-claims-win-as-greenville-county-ordered-to-permit-college-students-to-register-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/07\/network-claims-win-as-greenville-county-ordered-to-permit-college-students-to-register-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville County ordered to permit college students to register to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a>&#8216;s two-year campaign to recruit Greenville County college students to file suit against the county election board ended today with a clear victory.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge Robin Stilwell issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.7.16-Order-Granting-Injunction.pdf\">an order<\/a> at 4pm requiring the Greenville County Board of Voter Registration to &#8220;immediately and temporarily cease and desist from requiring the additional questionnaire from on-campus residents of Greenville County colleges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Stilwell concluded that if the requested relief was denied &#8220;the Plaintiffs (Ben) Longnecker and (Katherine) West will not be afforded the privilege of exercising their constitutional rights in the upcoming election. That opportunity will be forever lost.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/furman_case.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/furman_case.jpg\" alt=\"furman_case\" width=\"621\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/furman_case.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/furman_case-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/furman_case-446x300.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Furman student and plaintiff Sulaiman Ahmad, Rev. Carol Hill, Network Director Brett Bursey, and Greenville NAACP President Rev. J.M. Flemming at the Greenville Court House before the Oct. 6 hearing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also prompted the State Election Commission (SEC) to issue its first &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; order telling a county board what to do since South Carolina&#8217;s voting laws were codified in the 1895 constitution that disenfranchised blacks. &#8220;We anticipate that the SEC will force Greenville County to permanently end this practice,&#8221; said Network Director Brett Bursey, &#8220;and that it will use its new authority to force counties to follow standard procedures that will make the voting process in South Carolina less confusing and more equitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SC Progressive Network&#8216;s two-year campaign to recruit Greenville County college students to file suit against the county election board ended today with a clear victory. Circuit Judge Robin Stilwell issued an order at 4pm requiring the Greenville County Board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/07\/network-claims-win-as-greenville-county-ordered-to-permit-college-students-to-register-to-vote\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142,298,44,297],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","tag-brett-bursey","tag-furman-college-voter-registration","tag-sc-progressive-network","tag-voting-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}