Changing registration to vote in a primary.

[DenaliDemocrat]

If you had to change your voter registration to vote in a closed primary to keep a Trump disciple out in a very red state, would you?

[jmowreader]

1. I live in the reddest county in America

Changing my registration wouldn’t do what you want because the whole GOP primary ballot is Trump disciples.

[jcgoldie]

3. just curious

Where is the reddest county in America? (So I can cross that off my summer vacation plans.)

[blogslug]

12. According to the Cook Political Report

Currently, the most Republican district is Alabama's 4th

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/pvi/introducing-2021-cook-political-report-partisan-voter-index

[Claustrum]

2. My general feeling is that one vote isn't going to change an election

Especially you are talking about red states that have more TFG cultists.

[Auggie]

4. Yes

Not necessary in my part of California though

[Hoyt]

5. No. I think that kind of crud shouldn't happen in a true democracy, and is a bit GOPerish to me.

[AZProgressive]

6. No

I didn’t like Republicans before Trump and still don’t like them whether they are Mitt Romney, Trump, or DeSantis.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Yes, if I thought it was the best deployment of my vote to save our democracy

I am considering it. I heard it was done in a local election to filter out a greedy politician. It worked. But the effect on races in wider geography will be minimal.

[MichMan]

8. There can be unintended consequences

That is essentially how former Michigan governor Rick Snyder won election

He was a virtual unknown businessman prior to the primary and was a surprise winner with a lot of Dems crossing over to vote for him. The prevailing logic was that since he hadn't come out with any major policy positions, he was preferred over any of the better-known Republican elected officials that were running and might be easier to beat.

Of course he ended up winning (58 %) and passed things like RTW, and tax cuts as well as the emergency manger law that ended up causing so much trouble in Flint.

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes

[Demsrule86]

10. sure why not? If your vote won't help elect a Democrat...In Georgia we often had no Democrats

running in the general just the primary. Thus when I lived I would try to vote the least crazy person in. I never could bring myself to vote in the General and just stayed home...usually they ran unopposed.

[delisen]

11. If it is legal, it depends upon circumstances and is an issue of personal morality.

To use extremes: If a neo-Nazi was running in the primary and my vote might help to defeat the neo-Nazi I would change my registration.

[Generic Brad]

13. Nope

We currently have primaries where I live in Tennessee. There are multiple Republicans vying for twenty open seats. There are two unopposed Democrats running for only two of the twenty things on the city/county ballot.

I'll wait for the election in September, vote for the two Democrats, and opt out of the races where there is only a Republican running. I will never let Republicans think their support is growing in any way.

[Midwestern Democrat]

14. Honestly, I've never encountered a primary where I truly believed enough Democrats would change

their registration for that race to really make a difference. I think the number of people willing to make this effort for this purpose is very small - there's almost certainly far more people who have changed their party preference but have not bothered to change their official party registration (either out of laziness or a reluctance to officially join the other party).

[DenaliDemocrat]

16. There is one now

Dead heat. One Trumper, one oligarch, and one traditional type. I’m considering it.

[RaDaR63]

15. Some states don't require party registration to vote in the primaries

One just chooses which ballot they want when they show up at the polls.

[DenaliDemocrat]

17. I specifically said a closed primary

Republicans love those

[former9thward]

18. No.

This type of thing comes up every two years. It never works. Only the most partisan of political people would go to the trouble of doing it. That is a tiny, tiny percent of the voting population.