ELLOREE – The Elloree Election Commission will hold a hearing at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at Elloree Town Hall to hear a protest filed by write-in candidate Sarah Ann Parler in connection with the town’s special election on Sept. 30.

Parler, one of three write-in candidates in the election to fill the unexpired term of former District 2 Elloree Town Council member Barry Pauling, wrote in her protest letter filed late Thursday, “I am protesting the election and requesting that a new election be held. My basis for this is the failure of the election commission to give proper notice to the voters of this district as to the date of the election as required by state law.”

Earlier on Thursday morning, the Elloree Election Commission certified the results of the Sept. 30 election, despite the failure by the Orangeburg County Voter Registration and Elections Office to place a notice of the election in the newspaper as required by state law.

Howard Jackson, director of the county elections office, has acknowledged that his office “dropped the ball” in not placing a public notice of last week’s election in the newspaper.

Former Elloree councilman Harold Void won Tuesday’s election, getting 9 write-votes to Parler’s 8 write-in votes and Naome Wicks’ 2 write-in votes.

Pauling died June 13; his term expires in November 2011.

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