The Florida taxpayer paid once for a primary election - and it's up to the political party(ies) to use the results as recorded. If any political party doesn't, then that party's members have a fight with the party leadership, not the state.

Funny, I don't see too many folk blasting the Democratic National Committee for its highhandedness here. The DNC's belief seems to be that it shouldn't spend its coin for something it wouldn't take earlier, so the DNC's position seems to be "let's stick it to the [state] government to pick up the tab." The last time I looked the 'government' was this "of the people, by the people" group whose money funds the government apparatus.

If any party - Republican, Democrat, Green or People's - wants a special election or polling which services only that constituency, that party - not all of us as the 'government' - should pay for it. "We" the 'government' already did it once.