 Be sure to join us on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at 7 pm via this Zoom link. As always, our General Meetings are free and open to the public, so invite your friends and family!
Let's Talk FAIR Election Maps! Charles Mann, our local League's representative on the LWV South Carolina Redistricting Committee, will share where we are in the process and how we can participate to make democracy work!  Be sure to join us on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at 7 pm via this Zoom link. As always, our General Meetings are free and open to the public, so invite your friends and family!
Know Your Elections! Know Your Candidates! Phillip Stone will share the responsibilities of local offices so we can decide which candidates are best qualified when we vote in November! In addition, candidates have been invited to provide information about themselves on Vote411.org so you can compare them directly. Jane Turner, chair of our local Vote411 Team, will walk us what it offers.  Did you miss the forum or want to hear it again? The video is available!
 Join us to hear the latest on redistricting in South Carolina, what we've done in the last year, what we have planned from the coming year, and how you can join us to make democracy work!
Just follow this Zoom link! As always, our meetings are free and open to the public.  Ruth's Reflections: A Note from the President Ruth Stanton, LWVS President Welcome to a new League Year. Fall has traditionally been when the League ramps up for meetings and activities after a quiet summer. We do have lots planned for the fall (more in this newsletter about that), but this summer was hardly quiet! Since our last general meeting in May, League members...
The Board plans for Zoom Meetings this Fall. It makes us sad to do so, but we know that South Carolina is having a huge Covid surge swamping our health care system at this time and we don’t want League Members to unnecessarily and inadvertently contribute to this. We will monitor the situation for 2022. We will use this Zoom link every time, so save it to you calendar entries. Please join us for our first General Meeting, open to all, on Tuesday, September 21, at 7 pm. We’ll Introduce our Fall Meeting Line Up and our plans for activities for the upcoming year. Our featured speaker will be Charles Mann giving us the latest update on South Carolina Redistricting. We welcome guests and new members, so please invite a friend or friends to Zoom in with us. Let’s see who can bring in the most guests! To read the entire newsletter, just click here! Did you miss the live workshop - or perhaps want to refresh your memory? The video is available on the FB event page. Thanks again to everyone who made this workshop possible. So much good information and inspiration! Also, check out the Candidate page at https://www.scvotes.gov/ for details, dates and forms. 
 It's important for a healthy democracy to have more than one candidate running for a given office. There are many reasons to run for elected office and many barriers as well.
We're collecting stories of candidates and almost candidates! If you have experience running for office or if you seriously considered it but opted out for whatever reason, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please share your story with us via this form. A few stories will be shared at the annual meeting, but we want to have a collection of written stories as well so we can correctly identify ways to help citizens who wish to serve in public office. |
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