According to this story, the Greenville, South Carolina, city council will vote on April 6 whether to convert the city’s elections back from non-partisan to partisan elections.
If the city council does reinstate partisan city elections, the Greenville County Republican Party will once more be able to sue over state law that says parties must pay for open primaries in municipal partisan elections. The 4th circuit last month rejected the party’s lawsuit because Greenville had switched to non-partisan city elections last year. The 4th circuit said it was unlikely that the city would reinstate partisan elections. But, that might have been an error.
why shouldn’t political parties pay for their primaries?
Since it is the city of Greenville that is conducting the partisan election, shouldn’t it be the City of Greenville that finances the primaries?