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MLK: The time is right

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2025 LWVSC Convention: Save May 16 & 17

2025 LWVSC Convention

Save May 16-17. Details coming soon! Registration opens February 14. 

Dianna Wynn: Women Defend Democracy

"Women Defend Democracy" Campaign in 2025

LWV:  centering people power and moving our country towards a stronger, multi-racial democracy.  

Read about our plans—and join us!
LWVSC leads, partners, educates

LWVSC: a strong voice in South Carolina

Increasing understanding of major policy issues and influencing policy through education and advocacy.

LWVSC Lobbying and Advocacy Priorities, 2025 Session
Effective Advocacy LWVSC training

New! Effective Advocacy training modules

Feel more empowered to take action in support of YOUR causes! 

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We support public education

We support public state-supported education.

LWVSC supports public  education at all levels that is high quality, effective, equitable, inclusive, fully funded, and accountable.

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South Carolina

The League of Women Voters is proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties at any level of government, but always working on vital issues of concern to members and the public.

We encourage informed and active participation in government, work to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influence public policy through education and advocacy. Follow the bils and our testimonies during the 2025 South Carolina Legislative Session. 

 

LWVSC LEAD (League Education & Advocacy Day), February 1, 2025
Event Date: 
02/01/2025 - 9:30am to 3:00pm
Event location: 

Midlands Technical College Beltline Campus

Get ready for LWVSC’s February 1 League Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) in Columbia. Experience an exciting agenda of panelists and speakers, including current and former state legislators such as Heather Bauer, Penry Gustafson, and Katrina Shealy, and political science professor and director of the Winthrop Poll Initiative at Winthrop University, Dr. Scott Huffmon. (Registration now closed.)

LWV Membership Transition
News

Starting the week of February 3, an exciting new nationwide membership system will improve the member experience, streamline operations, and strengthen state and local Leagues.

Press Mention

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.

Making Democracy Work Network Update
Blog Post

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.

Making Democracy Work Network Update
Blog Post

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.

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Regarding utility regulation, we ask that the State retain its ability to protect us from the power of monopolies. Do not establish preferential treatment of utilities over citizens and citizen groups during regulatory processes and protect residential ratepayers. Require data centers to fully pay their own way. Allow agencies to do their jobs in assessing individual projects; don’t reach their conclusions for them.

Press Mention

The Statehouse Report

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.”

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Blog Post

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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Advocates and community leaders have launched “Freedom to Read SC,” a statewide coalition that will work to defeat unconstitutional efforts to ban books from school and public libraries. The Coalition includes educational organizations, civil rights groups, religious entities, and others who are committed to free speech and the free exchange of ideas.

Book bans are in direct violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees all Americans the right to access information and the freedom to read without censorship. Help defend the right to read in SC.

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Blog Post

CoverSC, the statewide coalition that includes the League of Women Voters of South Carolina, advocates for Medicaid Expansion in our state.. Closing the health insurance gap would cover over 200,000 South Carolinians.

Affordable healthcare will reduce medical debt and improve financial independence for families. Expanding coverage contributes 30,000 new jobs in South Carolina, bringing employment and healthcare to rural communities. Find out more about the coalition at www.CoverSC.org.

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Fall 2024 SC Voter newsletter

Highlights:

Read about two big issues: a proposed constitutional amendment and our state's energy future. Learn about the League's work, including the state's targeted digital campaign to get out the vote, the national One Person, One Vote campaign to eliminate the Electoral College, and innovative local programs like Charleston's mis-and disinformation panel with news editors. Stay informed and make a difference.