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Originally Posted by sharonl7340
I have been a Democrat my entire adult voting life. I align more with Democratic thoughts and values, but changed my party affiliation for this election. I assumed I would go back online change it back over after the election yesterday, but I have been thinking that would be a mistake. This county is controlled by a Republican majority and if I change back then I can't vote in the primaries that will ultimately decide who the candidates (opposed or unopposed) in November will be. I think I will keep my party affiliation as Republican just to balance out the deeply conservative votes in these primaries. This same situation (that occured in this election) will continue to happen in future races and I want to be ready to cast my vote for candidates who will listen to the citizens they are supposed to serve. I think the term has always been a "yellow Democrat" for a person to change their party to win an election; I'll be a yellow Republican to hopefully effect some change in the elections.
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Just remember, you can still vote Democrat in all general elections. And (as I discovered too late) if there's a primary with one party running with no other party opposing it, you can vote in that primary no matter what your affiliation is.
In other words:
If the Republican party has 3 candidates running and there's a Primary to determine which one gets the nomination..
and if there is no Democrat running for that particular position...
then the primary becomes a "universal primary" and every registered voter in the district can vote for that primary.