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Director flags election‑related bills and reviews outreach as board plans for 2025 elections
Summary
Director Marie Smalls reviewed prefiled election legislation (bills listed S36–S38 associated with a SCARE initiative), outlined training and noted the board’s outreach and poll‑worker recruitment efforts from the prior year.
Director Marie Smalls briefed the board on election‑related items in the opening weeks of the state legislative session and on the board’s outreach work over the past year.
Smalls drew the board’s attention to a set of prefiled bills she identified with a SCARE legislative initiative and pointed members to bills listed in the handout as S36, S37 and S38; she encouraged members to follow the state house website and to contact legislators if they support the items. Smalls also reviewed the calendar of upcoming elections (municipal contests and the statewide primary) and suggested training dates for staff and new board members.
On outreach, Smalls reported that the board hosted about 32 community education sessions during the prior year with widely varying attendance; members highlighted one Saint Helena event that recruited roughly two dozen poll workers. The board asked staff to track attendance numbers more systematically during future outreach.
Smalls noted that capital projects (windows and generator) are in design or bid preparation stages and that staff would provide updates at future meetings. She also reminded new board members about the South Carolina Ethics Commission filing deadline and upcoming training opportunities.
