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Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area Articles

Teacher Appreciation Week 2025

Teacher Appreciation Week Signs Everywhere

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

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Teacher Appreciation Week was celebrated annually across the nation from May 5th to May 9th to recognize the dedication, commitment, and hard work of teachers for their students, families and communities.

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

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New Poll Worker Training Classes are available!

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

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LWV HHI-BA 2024 Year in Review

Our League can celebrate many accomplishments in 2024!

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

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The League of Women Voters of HHI and Bluffton is pleased to announce we received two 2025 grants, one from the LWV US and another from the LWV SC.

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.

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League of Women Voters challenges SC map in court

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2025.

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WLTX News19 TV (Columbia)

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a high-stakes case that could force the redrawing of the state’s congressional map. At the center of the case is a challenge to the state’s 2022 congressional map, which plaintiffs argue was drawn to give one political party an unfair advantage. The League of Women Voters, the plaintiffs, say the current map violates voters’ rights by diluting their ability to choose their representatives.

Supreme Court hears arguments on SC's congressional redistricting plans

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2025.

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Spectrum News

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments about the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering in the state’s congressional districts. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and others filed the League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander in July 2024 with the goal to end partisan gerrymandering.

SC Supreme Court hears challenge to state’s Congressional map

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2025.

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WTOC 11 (Beaufort/Savannah)

Last year, the US Supreme Court sided with the state’s Republican leaders in a challenge over whether South Carolina’s Congressional map was racially gerrymandered. The League of Women Voters of South Carolina is challenging the latest Congressional map. With it, none of South Carolina’s seven districts are considered tossups that a candidate from either party could win, with six solidly red and Clyburn’s solidly blue.

SC Supreme Court hears arguments about gerrymandering

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2025.

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WSPA-TV (Greenville)

The League of Women Voters is suing the state over a redistricting map that they believe is unfair and illegal. “What we see in our congressional map is a badly distorted map that does not reflect any one community or any one cohesive group of communities,” said Lynn Teague with the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

Oral arguments start in South Carolina Supreme Court case over 2022 congressional map

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2025.

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Independent Mail (Anderson)

The League of Women Voters is accusing the state of reworking district lines to give Republican candidates an advantage with the congressional redistricting plan, which Gov. Henry McMaster signed on Jan. 26, 2022. Lynn Teague, League of Women Voters of South Carolina vice president for issues and action, said this lawsuit is different from the previous one, which alleged racial gerrymandering."The U.S. Supreme Court had decided they would not consider any gerrymandering other than racial. The state constitutional provides a broader range of very shallow reasons why it could be justiciable."

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