Statehouse handicappers say 2025 may be the year that lawmakers require South Carolinians to declare allegiance to one political party or the other when they register to vote, a long-time wishlist item for many GOP legislators.
The 2025 session of the S.C. General Assembly will open on Jan. 14.
Under current law, Palmetto State residents register without reference to political party and can then participate in the party primary of their choice. But two Republican-sponsored bills in the S.C. House, H.3310 and H.3643, would change that by requiring partisan registration…