Oconee and Pickens Counties Subscribed Articles

Oconee and Pickens Counties Subscribed Articles

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The Post & Courier

If the problem is that you don’t feel like you know enough about the candidates to cast an informed ballot (and you really shouldn’t vote if you don’t), the League of Women Voters of South Carolina can help. LWVSC and its local affiliates are in their fifth year of participating in the national league’s Vote411 candidate guide, available at vote411.org, to provide basic voter information about our elections.

The site will also show you your ballot, your polling place and other election basics, but its main role is to provide information about the candidates.

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The Post & Courier

We tend to agree at least initially with a warning from the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. It’s advising us not to mail in our votes but instead to cast them in person, since voting in person is far less likely to involve a mistake that would get the vote tossed out.

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The Post & Courier

Columbia, May 18, 2022- Early voting for the upcoming primaries kicks off May 31 across South Carolina under a new law celebrated by leaders in both parties as making it easier to cast a ballot while assuring it’s counted correctly. The law also requires post-election audits to ensure results spit out by a machine match voters’ intention. It’s a provision applauded by the League of Women Voters.

One of the changes that’s brought concern from voting rights activists is a new limitation on the number of absentee ballots that someone can return in person to their county office. Under the law, a voter can hand-deliver their own and up to five others. Teague said that could complicate efforts to ensure people in nursing homes, assisted-living centers and other congregate settings get to vote.

Making Democracy Work Network Update
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The State Election Commission (SEC) has announced no-excuse in-person early voting, May 31-June 10 (excluding Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5). Early voting locations will include county election offices and other locations identified by May 24. Excused absentee voting by mail will be available for eligible voters. 

Consult  Early Voting Now in Effect for June Primaries for the most accurate information. 

 

Your vote. Your voice.
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For many elected offices, the primary election is the most important election. Because so many seats are “safe” for one political party, the general election is often a sure bet for that party. Voting in the primary election is often your best opportunity to have a say in who represents you.

Results of the June 28 SC Primary Runoff will decide your choices for SC State Superintendent of Education and US Senator in November. Get#VoteReady at VOTE.411, your one-stop-shop for nonpartisan voting and election info.

Your vote. Your voice.
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For many elected offices, the primary election is the most important election. Because so many seats are “safe” for one political party, the general election is often a sure bet for that party. Voting in the primary election is often your best opportunity to have a say in who represents you.

Get#VoteReady for June 14, Columbia area!

Your vote. Your voice.
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For many elected offices, the primary election is the most important election. Because so many seats are “safe” for one political party, the general election is often a sure bet for that party. Voting in the primary election is often your best opportunity to have a say in who represents you.

Get#VoteReady for June 14, Charleston area!

Public Statement

The likely decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe. V Wade is devastating for American women.

The League of Women Voters of South Carolina has long supported women’s access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare and women’s rights to make the most intimate and personal decisions that are best for themselves and their families.

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The Post & Courier

Charleston, May 4, 2022- Last week, the Charleston County Board of Elections sent out notices informing residents of their brand-new political voting districts. And that’s how most folks in West Ashley and downtown south of Calhoun Street — about 80,000 people — learned that they had been gerrymandered out of Charleston’s congressional district. The League of Women Voters tried to warn everybody.

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The Statehouse Report

With just two weeks to go in the regular legislative session, the General Assembly has three full plates of work. Still to do: election reform.

Part of the reasoning for the need for election reform is the false narrative that there’s election fraud (there just isn’t). But good government advocates say what legislators have come up with this year will improve election processes and voter confidence. “Voters want early voting,” said Lynn Teague of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. “Election officials badly need more time to process absentee ballots and other helpful measures. Voter confidence and election management would benefit from risk limiting audits. It will be very unfortunate if these die in the final days of the session.”

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