League of Women Voters of South Carolina

There will be a press conference at 2 PM today on the State House steps to address the SCOTUS decision to deny Planned Parenthood any Medicaid funding. Show up and show support for an organization that for many is their only source of medical care.

Gerrymandering On Trial. The SC Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the League of Women Voters challenge to the SC Congressional map (2024-001227) on Tuesday, June 24, at 2:00 PM. To watch the streaming video, www.scetv.org/live/supreme...

SC consumer, environmental groups decry cuts to sweeping energy legislation • SC Daily Gazette Fate of massive energy legislation in question after the SC House removed measures meant to safeguard consumers and landowners.

Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on the House version of H.3309. scdailygazette.com/2025/05/05/s...

Controversial energy bill H.3309 could be expensive for consumers Starting April 1, the SC Senate will debate controversial energy bill H.3309 that could be expensive for consumers. The bill offers reduced electric rates to wealthy companies like Meta and Google, we...

Call your senator and ask them to protect us all through sound energy regulation. my.lwv.org/south-caroli...

Power for data centers could come at ‘staggering’ cost to consumers • Arkansas Advocate The explosive growth of data centers around the country — driven in large part by the burgeoning use of artificial intelligence — could come at a “staggering” cost for average residents with skyrocket...

Tell your SC General Assembly senator and representative that you must be protected from paying for generating capacity and any other costs associated with data center energy demands. Otherwise we may all suffer enormously while Zuckerberg and others profit. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/03/06/p...

You are correct. Faced with bills like H.3457 doctors, usually on advice of hospital attorneys, routinely delay treatment for cases that are leading directly to life-threatening sepsis until the condition has advanced. This leads to pregnant girls and women dying.

Testimony on the H.3457 abortion ban will be heard in the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee on Tuesday, March 4, at 9 AM in the Blatt Bldg., Rm. 110. Written testimony can be sent to HJudConstitutionalLaws@schouse.gov.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

H.3457 would ban abortions except in "medical emergencies." Abortion bans kill real live breathing people, as ProPublica's examination of results in Texas show; sepsis rates spiked from 2.9% to 4.9% during the 2nd trimester. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Every League of Women Voters member working voter registration knows election law better than the SC DMV.

There is only one entity working on voter registration that has led to problems for voters. That is the SC Dept. of Motor Vehicles, which for years has used an algorithm that incorrectly rejected applications from young people age 17 even though they would be 18 at the time of the election.

The House Constitutional Laws subcommittee heard testimony on H.3459, a bill to require Election Commission registration of 3rd party groups assisting voters in registering, but didn't get to a vote. Let your House members know that there is no risk to election integrity from these groups. Vote NO.

The League of Women Voters of SC has testified for or against 18 bills in the SC General Assembly, orally and in writing, after only six weeks of session. Check out our written testimony at my.lwv.org/south-caroli...

Yes, we testified against this bill last week in subcommittee, in both written and oral testimony. For our written testimony, check out our website at my.lwv.org/sites/defaul...

LWVSC Effective Advocacy Toolkit Do you have an issue you’re concerned about but are frustrated trying to make your voice heard by elected officials, administrators or the public? To help address this need, the League of Women Voter...

Check out the League of Women Voters of SC toolkit for advocacy. Learn how to make your voice heard at the State House, the county or municipal council, and the school board. bit.ly/effectiveadvocacy

Con con is back. Supporters keep rewriting their plans for a federal constitutional convention, in hopes that they can control a federal constitutional convention process through state laws. open.substack.com/pub/lteague/...

The Ugliest Thing San Francisco Ever Built: Lessons for AI Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press Eryk Salvaggio asks, are we again poised to value technological infrastructure over our shared social infrastructure?

An important discussion of AI and society today -- www.techpolicy.press/the-ugliest-...

How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance An AI lab out of China has ignited panic in Silicon Valley after releasing impressive AI models more cheaply and with less-powerful chips than U.S. AI giants.

Investing in US AI and data centers has just been revealed as much riskier than most people knew. China has just introduced AI that is more efficient, even with reduced capacity chips. What of South Carolina's energy investments to support AI? www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/h...

On Wednesday a House subcommittee will take up H. 3309, which would greatly weaken utility regulation in South Carolina. Today's post addresses only one of the significant issues around this bill. open.substack.com/pub/lteague/...

For information on the bills that the League of Women Voters will be following in 2025 in the 2025 SC General Assembly, see lists posted at my.lwv.org/south-caroli.... As the session goes on we will also post the testimony that we present in subcommittees.

South Carolina's 2025 legislative session begins next Tuesday. Several bills have been pre-filed that would require voters to register by party and to vote only in the primary for that party, with limited exceptions for independents. For more information, see open.substack.com/pub/lteague/...

The League of Women Voters of South Carolina is on Bluesky now. We will post information about SC voting and elections, government regulations, health care, education, judicial reform and more. We are looking forward to blue skies.

The League of Women Voters of South Carolina is on Bluesky now. We will post information about SC voting and elections, government regulations, health care, education, judicial reform and more. We are looking forward to blue skies.