By passing this new law, the state is both ratifying three decades of Hyde Park elections and legitimizing the process by which they were conducted going forward.

“Some of the negative impacts are grossly exaggerated,” said South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. “Things will settle down, it’ll get better. But at some point we’ve got to cut that bureaucracy because ...

Let’s ask the governor and the Legislature to focus on fixing the tax problem without blowing everything else up in just three months.