The Post and Courier: “Fresh off a successful 2020 campaign with an expanded majority, Republicans in the South Carolina Statehouse are eyeing changes to the state’s election agency that could give their party more influence over the process in the future.
A fast-moving bill sponsored by S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Hartsville, would give an expanded State Election Commission more power to standardize the election process and ensure all 46 counties have uniform practices.
But it was changes to Lucas’ bill, H.3444, after it was initially filed that significantly tilted the partisan balance of the changed commission, drawing the ire of Democrats who called it a transparent power grab.”