All Oconee and Pickens Counties Subscribed Action Alerts

We will not be silenced. #StopTheBansSC!

LWVSC Action Alert

Submitted by South Carolina in August 2022.

Action Alerts

We need YOU —and your power as a constituent—as the Senate takes up draconian abortion legislation on September 7.

No set of exceptions will make this legislation —or the “heartbeat” bill already in effect— acceptable. Call your senator and the Senate leadership. Keep up the pressure!

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Tell Your Senators to Support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

Time for Action

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in August 2022.

Action Alerts

At this critical moment in our nation’s history, as the freedom to vote remains under threat, we need pro-voter legislation more than ever! Tell your senators to vote yes on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and live up to the full promise of American democracy.

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Stop the bans! Act now and be counted.

LWVSC Alert: Committtees to hear bans in mid-August

Submitted by South Carolina in August 2022.

Action Alerts

Both houses are moving forward with abortion bans. The League opposes the proposed bans in their entirety. Read our testimonies: 

PDF icon 8.16.2022 House Special Laws Subcommittee Testimony H.5399

PDF icon 8.17.2022 Senate Medical Affairs Committee Testimony S.1327, S.1373, S.1348

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Committees to Meet; Stop the Abortion Bans!

LWVSC Alert: Committtees to hear bans in mid-August

Submitted by South Carolina in July 2022.

Action Alerts

During the week of August 15, committees in both Houses will hear abortion bills: 
 
Email all committee members NOW to #StopTheBansSC.
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Root Out Dark Money: The Senate Must Pass the DISCLOSE Act

Time for Action

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in July 2022.

Action Alerts

Corporations and wealthy individuals should not have the power to make undisclosed political contributions that influence elections. Disclosure of large political spending should be the bare minimum requirement.

Contact your senators today and tell them now is the time to root out dark money by passing the DISCLOSE Act.

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Repeal SC abortion restrictions; email the House Ad Hoc Committee

LWVSC Action Alert

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2022.

Action Alerts

House Bill H.5399 would ban all abortions in all circumstances. This bill threatens the rights and bodily autonomy of women —not only our moral agency and personal dignity but our lives. The 2021 “heartbeat” law should be repealed and further attempts to restrict abortion prior to viability should cease.

Email to #StopTheBansSC. PDF icon Read our testimony.

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Important Changes to Early Voting & Absentee Voting

Early Voting

Submitted by Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area in May 2022.

Action Alerts

 

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Tell Your Senators to Vote YES on the Women's Health Protection Act

Protect Reproductive rights

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in May 2022.

Action Alerts

The time has come for Congress to protect reproductive rights

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Tell Your Representatives That You want Equality to be Part of the Constitution

Logo: male and female symbols intertwined. Text: There are no more excuses - EQUAL MEANS EQUAL

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in March 2022.

Action Alerts

A new resolution has been introduced in the US House affirming that the Equal Rights Amendment has met all of the requirements needed to be added to the US Constitution. 

The inclusion of the Equal Rights Amendment in the US Constitution is long overdue.

Contact your representative today and tell them to assert that the ERA should be the law of the land! 

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End Discrimination at the Polls

Time for Action

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in March 2022.

Action Alerts

Since the Supreme Court decision in  Shelby County v. Holder, rolled back key provisions of the VRA, the voting rights of millions have been threatened. 

We cannot stand for a democracy that enables such regressive and dangerous attacks, which disproportionately impact Black and brown voters.

Tell your Senators to vote yes on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act!

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