FLORENCE -- Now that the S.C. Democratic Party Executive Committee has voided the June 8 Senate District 30 primary, it will be up to Gov. Mark Sanford to decide when a special election will be held.

The committee voted, 18-3, Friday morning to declare the primary invalid and to order a new election between incumbent Sen. Maggie Glover, Tim Norwood and Kent Williams.

Sanford will decide when the race will be held, but the ruling raises a lot of questions about the race. Who will be eligible to vote? How does the ruling affect other races in the June 8 primary? And will the June 22 runoff election go on as planned? These are the questions voters had Friday.

When will the new election occur?

Gov. Mark Sanford will receive an order from the S.C. Democratic Party Executive Committee informing him that the June 8 primary was declared invalid. The governor will decide when a special election will be held, but it will be as soon as possible, his spokesman Will Folks said.

"For the governor to set a new election, the first step is for us to receive a request from the appropriate election officials that a new date be set," Folks said. "We have yet to receive that request. The law does allow the governor to set new elections as a last resort, but we have to be absolutely sure this isn't something the county election commission should handle.

"Until that determination is made, it's premature to speculate about a new election date. The governor's legal staff, however, is reviewing and will continue to review the matter."

Will the Tuesday runoff between Glover and Williams go on as planned?

"As far as we know, the party declared the election invalid, so it's our assumption that the Senate 30 runoff won't be held," said Hanna Majewski of the South Carolina Election Commission.

But Sanford could change that with his decision on the special election.

Will other races in the June 8 primary be affected?

No. Norwood's protest of the primary election was in regard to the S.C. Senate District 30 race only.

"It won't affect other races. The only thing they were voting on was the Senate 30 race, because Tim Norwood entered the protest for his race," said Michelle Macrina, interim executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party.

Who will be eligible to vote in the new election? Will Republicans who voted in the June 8 primary be allowed to vote? Will registered voters who did not vote in the election at all be allowed to vote?

Macrina said no one who voted in the Republican June 8 primary will be allowed to vote in the special election. But people who did not vote at all and are registered voters will be eligible to vote.

"Everyone who did not vote in the June 8 Republican primary will be eligible to vote in the new election," Macrina said.

Will the new election affect the runoff in other races?

No. Other races being decided in Tuesday's runoff will go on as scheduled. There is a runoff in the Marion County Sheriff's race and the Marion County Council District 2 race. Both runoffs will continue as scheduled regardless of the governor's decision.

Other questions about the order of a new election have to do with the legalities. Because the State Law Enforcement Division has been asked to investigate allegations of voter fraud, there's a question as to whether voters whose ballots were challenged will be eligible to vote in the special election.

Macrina said the party's executive committee ruled that anyone whose ballot was challenged in the June 8 primary will be able to vote in the special election.