DANNY STACY The race for the House District 29 seat is headed back to the state election commission.

Citing voting irregularities, Republican Danny Stacy filed a protest of the Nov. 7 general election. The state election commission will meet Tuesday to set a date for the protest hearing, state election commission spokesperson Chris Whitmire said.

After last week's recount, Stacy trailed Democrat Dennis Moss by 63 votes. But Stacy wants the commission to throw out that result and call for a special election.

"Today, attorneys for my campaign have filed a formal protest of the recent election for House District 29 with the South Carolina State Election Commission in Columbia," said Stacy in a press release. "We have discovered a number of discrepancies in the vote totals and I am forced to challenge the result in order to ensure the will of the majority is being carried out.

"The good people who voted for me did so because they know Danny Stacy will stand up for them and for their rights ... and that's exactly what I am doing."

House District 29 includes parts of Cherokee, Chester and York counties.

"There is no question in my mind that this election will be overturned," said Republican consultant and Stacy advisor Rod Shealy. "We have found over 200 instances of improper votes or incorrectly registered voters. In Chester County, three different precincts which contain no portion of District 29 submitted votes in this election. In other instances, entire streets of voters were given the wrong ballots. We have found over 50 instances of voters living at the same address being registered in different House districts, which is an obvious error. All in all, the number of improper votes will far exceed the slim margin in this contest."

Moss called the "11th hour" protest "frivolous."

"He filed it at the 11th hour and I'm disappointed that my opponent has decided to prolong the results of this election by filing a frivolous protest at the expense of the taxpayers," Moss said. "I'm ready and prepared to move on. This election has been looked at three times and all three times I've been the victor."

Moss said all three county election commissions and the state election commission received no complaints about the voting.

Moss said he is preparing for the legislative session.

"I've been in meetings with legislators, with the Speaker of the House and the chamber of commerce members in Rock Hill," he said.