SC Daily Gazette

Removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds was important. It was a powerful symbol of a long history of racial injustice. Now we are faced with an issue that is even more important — not symbol but substance. Voting rights are the substance, the core of racial justice, that people have lived and died for. The proposed map would unfairly impair the ability of hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians to have a voice in Congress. We hope our legislators will make a thoughtful and fair choice.

Charleston City Paper/The Statehouse Report

With just three business days left in the legislative session, Republicans in the South Carolina Senate tapped the brakes Thursday on a last-minute plan to gerrymander 17-term Democratic U.S. Rep. James Clyburn out of his congressional seat. But regardless of any political outcomes either way, S.C. League of Women Voters Vice President Lynn Teague said her group opposes the proposed redistricting.

“Convincing people to vote when they’ve seen conscious, obvious, blatant attempts to rig the maps is just very hard,” Teague said. “The constitutional purpose is to see to it that all the people of South Carolina are represented in Washington. And this would send exactly the wrong message.”