In an editorial today, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal suggests that it is the Democratic Party and not Green Party nominee Eugene Platt who is the sore loser. The expression “sore loser” comes from laws that deny candidates who lose in a primary from mounting a write-in campaign.

The South Carolina law as interpreted by the staff of the South Carolina Election Commission would not only bar a candidate from running a write-in campaign if they lost a primary, but would allow the results of one party’s candidate selection process to determine the outcome of another party’s process.

The thrust of the editorial is summed up in the first two lines.

Democratic Party voters shouldn’t be able to dictate who represents the Green Party on the ballot. That’s why South Carolina’s “sore loser” law should be struck down.