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Avoid problems at the polls / keep your contact information current!

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LWVCA member, Betty Gregory, shares her experience in a few step-by-step pictures on how to vote absentee in the Nov. 3 general election.  

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Richland Library can help with voter registration and absentee voting.  The library has stamped voter registration forms at Ballentine, Northeast, Sandhills, and St.

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Think you're ready to vote? First check your registration at VOTE411.org.
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Diversity, Equity, inclusion
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In this new year, let’s reaffirm our organization’s commitment to DEI amidst the continuing challenges being put forth by our federal government. Be intentional over the next 11 months in assessing the level of racial/ethnic diversity in your League’s membership and leadership positions. Then be committed to acting on that assessment as your League engages in community outreach for building membership and for voter registration collaborations.

We believe in the power of women
Research & Studies

The LWVSC Working Group on Gender and Women’s Equity recommends The Turnaway Study findings for those needing evidence-based research regarding reproductive choices. In summary: Women make thoughtful, well-considered decisions about whether to have an abortion.

We believe in the power of women
Research & Studies

The LWVSC Working Group on Gender and Women’s Equity summarized the WREN (Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network) 2025 study. Please communicate with your elected representatives and utilize these facts to bolster your messages to policymakers. Research shows that informed policies can help women, girls and their families while ignoring facts and research leads to worse outcomes for everyone.

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South Carolina legislators are again considering changes to how the state vets its judges, this time giving the governor total control of the panel that screens them. Only one organization , the state League of Women Voters, testified on the bill. Lynn Teague, LWVSC, said the organization supports keeping legislators off the panel as a way to balance powers between the branches of government. But the League would still like to see the General Assembly have some voice in who sits on that panel. Teague said the League also is opposed to the new anti-DEI language. "We need a judiciary that looks more like South Carolina."

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Should SC close partisan primary elections only to bona fide party members? That fight is back.