In less than 24 hours, millions of SC voters can head to the polls.

But they won’t be able to vote for just anyone on the ballot.

Following SC Supreme Court rulings in April (on a Lexington County case) and last Tuesday (on a Florence County case), nearly 250 candidates have been ruled ineligible for election by county party leaders.

According to SC Election Commission spokesperson Chris Whitmire, 131 are Republicans and 117 are Democrats.

While most of those names will not be on Tuesday ballots, the 54 additional names (48 Republicans and six Democrats) removed in the past week will be

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