The Post & Courier - Lynn S. Teague, LWVSC, and Frank Knapp Jr., SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce.

Our state government is giving Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper a blank check to build a big gas plant to produce electricity at the retired Canadys coal plant in Colleton County. We've seen this before; ratepayers are still paying those debts today. The Legislature needs to limit ratepayer responsibility.

LWV CEO Celina Stewart joined Senator Alex Padilla and other leaders in a press conference to talk about the SAVE Act. It  would eliminate most common forms of voter registration, including voter registration drives, online and mail registration, and same-day registration, The law would also make voting significantly harder for as many as 69 million married women, along with seniors and rural, low-income, and minority voters. who can’t readily access their passports and birth certificates. Read more to hear her remarks.