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Address change? Update your address 30 days prior to the Nov. election!

Submitted by Columbia Area in November 2020.

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

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Midlands Gives Day 2026 - May 5

graphic with Midlands Gives Day date, 5.5.2026 and photo of LWV members

Submitted by Columbia Area in May 2026.

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It's time for Midlands Gives! 
 
Show your support for the League of Women Voters of the Columbia Area by giving on May 5, 2026 6:00 am to 11:59 pm. 
 
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How To's on Voting Absentee

Submitted by Columbia Area in October 2020.

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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 Support for Voting

Submitted by Columbia Area in September 2020.

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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?

Submitted by Columbia Area in September 2020.

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Think you're ready to vote? First check your registration at VOTE411.org.
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Midterm Redistricting

Submitted by South Carolina in July 2026.

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The big State House story for the League in 2026 has been midterm redistricting. We have won several battles this year, but the war for fair representation will almost certainly continue. The issue will resurface in 2027, probably including redistricting not just congressional but also South Carolina House and Senate maps.

Stay tuned to mobilize for this truly central issue in protecting representative democracy. We must work together with renewed energy because these issues are certain to continue to threaten the foundations of our representative democracy.

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Nationwide League poetry anthology expresses love of country, democracy

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2026.

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The national poetry anthology Democracy's Urgent Call features poems by League members from across the country including the poem of Elizabeth Sumner Jones, LWV Columbia Area, SC.

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Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump-Vance Voter Purge Database

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2026.

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Administration’s plan to unlawfully aggregate personal data to enable voter purges ended by court order in a significant voting issues victory. The ruling comes in League of Women Voters v. US Department of Homeland Security, a case brought by the League of Women Voters, League of Women Voters of Virginia, League of Women Voters of Louisiana, League of Women Voters of Texas, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

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Responsibility and Data Centers

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2026.

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The world knows from harsh experience what happens when powerful individuals and groups are allowed unregulated ability to do whatever increases their own power and influence. Data centers are the newest example. This doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t exist. It does mean that their owners must be compelled to be transparent about their plans, build and operate their facilities in ways that do not trample on the lives of their neighbors, and they must pay their own way.

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Commentary: A Statehouse parody of the nation’s ideals commemorated on Memorial Day

Submitted by South Carolina in May 2026.

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SC Daily Gazette
By Lynn Teague, VP, Issues & Action, League of Women Voters of South Carolina

We often say that the people we commemorate on Memorial Day risked everything for our highest ideals. I am certain that neither my uncle nor the people who grieved losing him for the rest of their lives would have felt that he died so that those who already hold power could silence everyone who disagrees with them in a winner-take-all parody of representative democracy.

H.5683, a bill developed in Washington, D.C. designed to predetermine the outcome of our state's congressional elections, is a betrayal of the highest ideals of our state and nation. We should reflect on that while we celebrate this most sober of national holidays.

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