{"id":42667,"date":"2026-07-12T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42667"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:12:08","slug":"brent-nelsen-explains-open-vs-closed-primary-systems-on-wspa-7news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-explains-open-vs-closed-primary-systems-on-wspa-7news\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen explains open vs. closed primary systems on WSPA 7News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registered South Carolina voters can cast ballots in either the democratic or republican primary regardless of party affiliation courtesy of the state&#8217;s open primary system. A lawsuit filed by the SC Republican Party against the South Carolina Election Commission could change that. Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IORoIV-7FHU\">WSPA 7News<\/a> about what a closed primary system would mean for voters. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, is a regular commentator for local news sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelsen explains the impact of a closed primary system and how voters might be impacted by a suit filed by the SC GOP against the SC Election Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,1578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wspa-7-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42676,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42667\/revisions\/42676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}