Remove two illegal board members NOW

Why does the Richland 2 school board tolerate two women on the board who are not legitimate board members?

This serious situation has existed since the school board meeting on November 13, 2018. That is now 3½ years!!!

The board has never explained to the public how Teresa Holmes and Amelia McKie can be legal board members.

Should members of the public have to file a lawsuit in the Richland County Common Pleas Court to resolve this?

History:

Holmes was elected, and McKie was re-elected, on November 6, 2018.

The election was certified on November 9, 2018.

The oath-of-office was administered on November 13, 2018, three full weeks before they first became eligible to take the oath-of-office. Neither had filed her Statement of Economic Interests Report (SEI) with the S.C. Ethics Commission.

The term of office began November 16, 2018, one week after the election was certified, but Holmes and McKie attended the November 13, 2018 board meeting and the executive session on that date.

The Voice of Blythewood newspaper blew the whistle on them about their SEIs.

On December 4, 2018 Holmes and McKie filed their SEIs electronically. On this date they first became eligible to take the oath-of-office.

Neither Holmes nor McKie has taken the oath-of-office on or since December 4, 2018.

THEREFORE, they are not legal board members.

It's not just a "technicality". It's the LAW. See S.C. Code of Laws Section 8-13-1110.

ARTICLE 11

Disclosure of Economic Interests

SECTION 8-13-1110. Persons required to file statement of economic interests.
(A) No public official, regardless of compensation, and no public member or public employee as designated in subsection (B) may take the oath of office or enter upon his official responsibilities unless he has filed a statement of economic interests in accordance with the provisions of this chapter with the appropriate supervisory office.

The Richland County Sheriff's Department and the S.C. Attorney General should have acted on my complaint that Holmes and McKie are usurping public office.

What does it mean to have board members and officers (Holmes is acting as Chair; McKie is acting as Secretary) who are not legitimate board members?

Everything they touch is invalid. Their attendance in executive sessions is unlawful. Their voting on board motions is invalid. All votes by them should be struck. Decisions will change, when their votes are removed. Every vote since November 13, 2018 must be reviewed and their votes deleted. Documents signed by them are invalid.

Three and one-half years of board work will have to be reviewed. Will Bondholders and banks be concerned? 

Will the Governor remove them under the new law that resulted from S.203?