And, perhaps more importantly, what’s to stop the party from arbitrarily and capriciously limiting access to the ballot in the future? Neither Nordone nor Ford qualified for the ballot based on a plain text reading of the rule, but McKissick’s party allowed Nordone to remain on the ballot while booting Ford. Grassroots Republicans were livid at yet another example of McKissick and party leaders playing favorites – this time with the fundamental right to ballot access. ***RELATED | REPUBLICAN PARTY SUED OVER BALLOT ELIGIBILITY***Shortly thereafter, McKissick’s party was sued by Danny Lee Ford II – one of the candidates excluded from the ballot based on the party’s selective enforcement. South Carolina’s court system agreed this selective enforcement was unfair, assailing the “asymmetry” of the SCGOP rule and rebuking “the lack of safeguards around the (party’s) process” for enforcing it.