In 2010, the Greenville County Republican Party, and the South Carolina Republican Party, filed a lawsuit to enable the party to limit voting in its primaries to only party members. Earlier this month the state Republican Party withdrew from the lawsuit. However, according to this story, the state party’s Executive Director, Alex Stroman, says the state party still supports the lawsuit, and the state party will simply let the Greenville County Republican Party carry on by itself. The state party says it withdrew from the lawsuit to save attorneys’ bills. This seems odd, because there doesn’t seem to be any logical reason why the Greenville Republican Party and the state Republican Party needed separate attorneys in any event.

On June 15, the Idaho Republican Party rejected a plan to limit access to the party’s primary ballot to only those candidates who were approved by party committees. See this story. The party did re-affirm its commitment to the current policy of allowing only registered Republicans to vote in the party’s primary.

The Idaho Republican Party State Central Committee votes on Saturday, June 15, on a proposed rule change. The rule would require candidates in Republican primaries to get permission from party committees, in order to get on the Republican primary ballot. See this story, which focuses on the intense opposition to the idea from the Republican Governor and a large share of the state’s Republican legislators.

Even if the party passes the new rule, the state election laws would not permit the idea to be carried out. Presumably the proponents of this idea would file a lawsuit to enforce the party rule, since it seems extremely unlikely the legislature would amend the election code to give any qualified party that authority.