Urgent! Don't rig our maps! May 20 hearing, May 21 rally, submit written testimony

Urgent! Don't rig our maps! May 20 hearing, May 21 rally, submit written testimony

Action Alert
Time Range For Action Alert: 
May 19 2026 to May 31 2026

The Senate Judiciary will meet on H.5683 at 2 pm tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20, in Gressette 105. They will take public testimony on the plans to disrupt our congressional elections in order to redraw the map.

On Thursday, May 21, jon us at the Don’t Rig Our Maps rally, noon -3 pm,  on the south grounds of the South Carolina State House, 1100 Gervais St, Columbia, SC.

The plan is a Washington push to ensure that more than 40% of our state’s people have no voice in Washington. Be there if you can to tell our legislators that you will not be silenced! 

Take action

  1. Call both your Senator and your House Represenative. Tell them  that they must vote NO on this midterm redistricting, forced on South Carolina by outside players who have no interest in our people or, apparently in the preservation of representative democracy.
  2. Attend the hearing tomorrow, May 20, 2 pm, at the Gressette Building Room 105 to give public testimony. Our legislators need to hear your opinion on election rigging loud and clear.
  3. Attend the rally on Thursday, May 21 at noon at the south grounds of the South Carolina State House. Learn more and sign up to attend the rally.
  4. Submit testimony on the proposed map at HJudConstitutionalLaws [at] schouse.gov.
  5. Share this action alert with friends and family members.

Background

The map that is proposed now will require redefining ALL of South Carolina’s congressional districts, because people removed from one district don’t just pack up and leave the state. They have to go to another district.

This will be chaotic for candidates, voters, and election workers. Candidates will have to file for primaries again and start raising money to address newly defined districts. Citizens who have already voted, including overseas military, will have their votes discarded and must vote again. There will be millions in costs for taxpayers, at both state and county levels. 

Attempts to justify this refer to the recent Louisiana v. Callais decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. In legal challenges both the federal and state Supreme Courts have said that the South Carolina map is a partisan, not a racial gerrymander. There is no legal necessity for South Carolina to draw a new map. The need is partisan, not legal.

The League of Women Voters is nonpartisan. We do not support or oppose any party. However, we are very committed to helping South Carolina’s voters have a meaningful voice in how we are governed.

Our current maps are distorted by partisan gerrymandering, but this is an attempt to take away the voices of hundreds of  thousands of South Carolinians, leaving them with no one to represent their interests in Washington.

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Issues referenced by this action alert: 
Redistricting