Sullivan, Burns Vy For House 17 Seat In Today's Run-Off

The polls open up at 7 p.m. in the House District 17 area of Greenville County, where voters will select either Chris Sullivan or Mike Burns to replace Tom Corbin in the South Carolina House of Representatives. 

Burns, a businessman from Travelers Rest, garnered 1,114, just shy of 50 percent of the vote in the Jan. 22 special primary election. Sullivan, a longtime political consultant, received only 874 votes, but has since had his candidacy endorsed in between the Jan. 22 contest and the run-off by multiple parties, including the third-place finisher Roy Harmon. 

The winner of the GOP run-off will move onto the special election on March 12. No Democrats have filed in the overwhelmingly Republican district. 

The House 17 seat was opened up when Tom Corbin vacated the seat after being elected to replace Phil Shoopman in the S.C. Senate last year.