FITSNews

FITSNews reported the ground rules for South Carolina's special Senate primary and said the Justice Department was reviewing "four distinct violations" of federal law in the timeline, a claim it did not itemise and that Lowdown could not independently verify from a primary DOJ document. It attributed the voter exclusion to S.C. Code § 7-11-55, though that statute, verified directly by Lowdown, governs the election calendar and candidate substitution only and contains no voter-eligibility language.

The outlet was founded in 2006 by Will Folks, a former campaign aide to Governor Mark Sanford who left that role amid a domestic-violence charge. The Columbia Journalism Review has described FITSNews as a Conservative-libertarian site covering South Carolina politics; it has broken national stories including the Murdaugh murders case and the Rockstar Cheer scandal.

Lowdown rates FITSNews bias tier 3 and attributes its claims narrowly. The Election Commission's own statement on the June-primary voter exclusion made no mention of any DOJ review at all.