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Sunday, November 11, 2012  State leaders from both parties say major changes are needed after the problems from last Tuesday's election.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012  An attorney representing black South Carolina voters says a federal court ruling on Texas' voting maps bolsters his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Friday, November 11, 2011  South Carolina Democrats filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the U.S. House district lines drawn by the Republican-dominated Legislature, calling them electoral apartheid.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011  The bills from Gov. Nikki Haley's weeklong trip to Europe in June total more than $127,000 and are still coming in. But the governor returned home with two agreements with foreign employers that are in the works, not done deals as Haley has said.  Critics fire back at the trip calling it a waste of taxpayer money.

Thursday, July 21, 2011  South Carolina Democrats are renewing calls for Republican Lt. Gov. Ken Ard to resign a day after the state's top prosecutor said a grand jury should review the ethics case against Ard for potential criminal charges

Wednesday, July 06, 2011  Days after the South Carolina Ethics Commission Director said Lt. Gov. Ken Ard provided inaccurate explanations of spending to investigators, the state Democrats are calling on Ard to step down.  Dick Harpootlian, the South Carolina Democratic Party's chairman, says Ard should resign from his post after, what he calls, repeated lies to the ethics commission.