by John Haughey, The Center Square | April 16, 2021 11:00 AM Print this article
A South Carolina House subcommittee considered legislation Thursday to expand absentee voting.
House Bill 3822, filed Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, the South Carolina Legislature s longest-serving legislator, would expand voting through a 30-day no-excuse-needed period for absentee ballots, eliminate the requirement that mail-in ballots be certified by witnesses and allow for same-day voter registration.
If HB 3822 is adopted along with a Republican-sponsored bill to expand in-person absentee voting during a two-week no-excuses-needed period, it would mark the largest expansion of voting in South Carolina since the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers:
March 9
The Post and Courier on gun control legislation reintroduced to Congress by a U.S. representative from South Carolina:
Nearly six years after Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun and use it to kill nine people in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, little has been done to improve the administration of national background checks required when purchasing a gun from a licensed federal firearms dealer. Congress has another chance to correct this failure and should do so without delay.
The Enhanced Background Checks Act reintroduced March 2 by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., would help close the so-called “Charleston loophole” that allowed Mr. Roof to purchase his firearm when the federal background check was not completed within three business days. Mr. Clyburn’s bill would expand that narrow window by giving law enforcement 10 business days to complete a background check. If the review
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