By Richard Winger On the evening of April 6, the Greenville, South Carolina, city council tentatively voted to switch to partisan elections for city office. See this story. Assuming the change is finalized, the Greenville County Republican Party will be free to again sue the state over the law that forces county parties to pay for the administration of partisan primaries in cities within that county. The party does not object to paying for the primary but it objects to being told that the party must let non-members vote in its city primaries.
Just a few weeks ago, the Fourth Circuit …read more