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Dorchester County council says charter advertising lapse may have invalidated 2024 election results
Summary
Council members announced that a required five‑week newspaper advertisement step for July 2024 charter amendments was missed, and that the lapse may have invalidated the County’s 2024 general election results; the Charter Review Commission and Council will decide next steps.
George L. Pfeffer Jr., president of the Dorchester County Council, told the council March 4 that an administrative error likely invalidated the County’s 2024 general election results because charter amendment resolutions adopted in July 2024 were not advertised in a newspaper of general circulation for five consecutive weeks as required by law.
“We discovered that a critical step was missed in the process…
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