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Address change? Update your address 30 days prior to the Nov. election!

Submitted by Columbia Area in November 2020.

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Avoid problems at the polls / keep your contact information current!

How To's on Voting Absentee

Submitted by Columbia Area in October 2020.

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LWVCA member, Betty Gregory, shares her experience in a few step-by-step pictures on how to vote absentee in the Nov. 3 general election.

Richland Library Support for Voting

Submitted by Columbia Area in September 2020.

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Richland Library can help with voter registration and absentee voting. The library has stamped voter registration forms at Ballentine, Northeast, Sandhills, and St.

Think you're ready to vote?

Submitted by Columbia Area in September 2020.

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Think you're ready to vote? First check your registration at VOTE411.org.

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Post-Covid surplus budgeting continues

Submitted by South Carolina in January 2025.

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The Statehouse Report
Another “surplus” of almost $2 billion in last year’s “unexpected revenues” that SC lawmakers can now dole out in one-time expenditures caught the eyes of some good government advocates.

“The state has so many needs and this surplus isn’t genuine,” S.C. League of Women Voters Vice President Lynn Teague told Statehouse Report. “This is money that needs to be used [for critical programs].”

S.C. Education Association President Sherry East echoed Teague’s concerns about the process.“You’ve got state workers, teachers, public employees, and they’re really hurting,” East said. “With more accuracy in the projections, [lawmakers] could make a long-term commitment to educators and firefighters and police officers in the budget.

Submitted by South Carolina in January 2025.

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On January 21, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will consider four bills. S. 35 would propose a constitutional amendment that would delete the Comptroller General from the list of constitutional officers. S.36 would modify provisions for establishing polling places, including numbers of registered electors and notice to electors of persons whose registration is transferred. S.37 addresses municipal elections, following on the last-minute failure in the 2024 session of a bill to standardize dates and reform processes. S.38 would standardize the special election dates, including primaries and runoffs.

Is registration by party coming to S.C. as session opens?

Submitted by South Carolina in January 2025.

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Statehouse handicappers say 2025 may be the year that lawmakers require South Carolinians to declare allegiance to one political party or the other when they register to vote, a long-time wishlist item for many GOP legislators. But Lynn Teague, vice president of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of South Carolina, says a switch would not be in the interests of nonpartisan voters. “The League opposes both bills,” Teague said in a Jan. 9 statement. “Although either would be acceptable if all unaffiliated voters could vote in any primary, without further conditions.”

Submitted by South Carolina in January 2025.

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Bills have been prefiled and next Tuesday the South Carolina General Assembly will return for the 2025 session. As usual, there are issues and bills that relate to our ability to make democracy work in South Carolina.

Submitted by South Carolina in December 2024.

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Our voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts in South Carolina contributed to the highest turnout ever in a presidential election. But important work remains. Now, more than ever, the League of Women Voters needs to—and will—combat threats to democracy and work courageously and persistently to ensure that South Carolina laws and government protect the interests and reflect the diversity of the people of our state. To do so we need to be bigger and bolder. We hope you will continue to stand by our side.

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