South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is the state Arm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, based in Columbia. With three voters with disabilities, it argued that South Carolina's limits on WHO may HELP a voter, including a CAP of five voters per assistant, breach Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act, which lets a voter WHO needs HELP choose WHO gives it.

Judge Mary Geiger Lewis dismissed that case on 30 September 2026 for lack of standing, writing that 'concern is not concreteness'. The limits therefore apply for the 3 November Senate election.

The conference has fought the state in the highest court before. It was the named respondent in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, in which the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on 23 May 2024 that the state's congressional map was not a racial gerrymander.