Read more: Local, State, Republican, Lawsuit, Greenville, South Carolina
(AP) -- South Carolina is being sued by a local chapter of the South Carolina Republican Party.
The suit is seeking the federal government to require voters to choose a political party when they register and vote only in that party's primary.
Samuel Harms, the chairman of the Greenville County GOP, claims the state law that allows voters to cast their ballot in whichever primary they choose to participate violates the First Amendment's right of free association.
Similar legislation to change state law failed in the past.
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