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Sept 18 Last Class for New Poll Workers

Submitted by Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area in April 2025.

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Last New Poll Worker Training Class Sept 18!

Submitted by Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area in July 2024.

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Are you attending college in South Carolina? If so, you have a choice to make.

Resident students in South Carolina may register to vote either where they reside while attending college or at their home of origin. Whether you consider yourself to be more a resident of your college location or your original home location is up to you. Only you can decide where you think you want your voice as a voter to be heard. Just know that you can vote either where you attend school or at your home of origin, but not both.

Submitted by Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area in February 2024.

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SC is one of only 10 states that has refused to expand health insurance coverage for working-age adults although Federal funds would cover more than 90% of the cost.

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Extreme Abortion Ban Hearing Scheduled for Oct. 1 in South Carolina

Oct. 1 SC Extreme abortion ban hearing scheduled

Submitted by South Carolina in September 2025.

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South Carolina lawmakers are preparing to ram a dangerous and extreme anti-abortion bill through the legislative process starting October 1 with a specially called Senate subcommittee meeting. "If passed, this would relegate everyone who becomes pregnant to the control of the state. All who care about the preservation of the rights that Americans have valued over the years must reject this bill,” said Lynn Teague, VP for Issues & Action, League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

Congressman wants to eliminate SC’s only Democratic district. Republicans say they have a plan.

Submitted by South Carolina in September 2025.

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The Post & Courier

A far-right faction of the S.C. Legislature says it will introduce legislation to redraw the lines to give the GOP near-guaranteed control of all of the state’s congressional seats instead of its current six. On paper, it seems simple to chop up, gut and eliminate South Carolina’s only Democratic-held — and Black majority — congressional seat.

For 95 years, South Carolina’s delegation was completely White when nearly half the state’s voters were not.Lynn Teague, co-president of the South Carolina League of Women Voters, acknowledged that Clyburn’s district “is very badly drawn so that CD-1 (Congressional District 1, held by Mace on the coast) could be gerrymandered. But that doesn't mean that CD-6 (held by Clyburn) is in itself an affront to the law or to ethics.”

DOJ seeks South Carolina voter data, raising privacy fears

Submitted by South Carolina in September 2025.

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WJBF News Channel 6

The U.S. Department of Justice and staff from the State Election Commission are now set to meet Wednesday morning, after weeks of back-and-forth, to discuss the request of voter list data from the South Carolina Election Commission. South Carolina is not the only state that received this request; several other states were also asked to submit similar data. Some have reportedly pushed back, saying it is against state laws and is an invasion of privacy, while others are reviewing the legal basis for the request. “I am always concerned about anything that discourages people from voting. There is the potential that people will be fearful of voting,” said Lynn Teague from League of Women Voters.

Court blocks Department of Justice request for South Carolina voter data

Submitted by South Carolina in September 2025.

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WLTX News19 TV (Columbia)

Today was the deadline for the SC State election committee to hand over voter information to the federal government, which is now in limbo. A lawsuit claims the request violates the South Carolina Constitution's right to privacy and other provisions of state law. "It’s a concern to the League of Women Voters that’s they’ve not said what they plan to do with the data once they get it. The League does not want to see doubt cast on the validity of our elections," said Lynn Teague, VP, Issues & Action, LWV of South Carolina.

Pro-union, pro-worker Labor Day rally/march draws hundreds at SC State House

Submitted by South Carolina in September 2025.

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The State

A Labor Day rally at the S.C. State House attracted about 300 people and a dozen speakers on Monday. Lynn Teague, vice president of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina, urged the audience to get engaged, “really” understand the issues and vote. “They need to get out there for all the elections.,..Primaries are more important than (the general election) in November.”

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