The State offers this report. This is a very odd report, noting the litigation in Virginia and Mississippi. As I understand Tashjian and California Democratic Party v. Jones, if a party objects to the form of a primary (e.g., open v. closed), it gets the last word on choosing the form of the primary (except it cannot choose a system over the objection of other parties that invites voters registered with other parties to vote in that primary—Clingman v. Beaver). Bottom line: if the South Carolina legislature doesn’t change the system for Republicans to close the Republican primary, the Republicans should be able to force that change through litigation.