Freedom votes: Don’t close South Carolina’s primary elections

Freedom votes: Don’t close South Carolina’s primary elections

A sign with the words "Vote Here Today" posted outside a polling place in Camden, S.C., during the 2024 presidential election. (File photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)Some bad ideas are perennial. Take, for instance, the misguided notion of closing South Carolina’s free and open primary elections. Closed-primary proposals show up at the Statehouse as regularly as Palmetto bugs tumbling from the trees every spring. It’s not a pleasant sig…