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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Only in the primary, and only because there is no party competition in this primary, other than other Republicans. It's a closed primary. Many states have them, it's not a novel thing. If it were a Democrat primary, then only registered Democrats would be allowed to vote in it.
And, unlike Russia or China, here in Florida (and in other closed-party states) you can change your affiliation from whatever it was, to Republican - JUST so you can vote in the Republican primary. And then the day after the election is over you can switch back to whatever you were.
You can only vote in one Primary per election season, but which one you vote in is up to you (unless the candidate runs unopposed by anyone in the other party, at which point you still can vote in that primary if you want by affiliating with that party a couple of months before the election).
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Seeing as the government knows that voters will not have a choice of commissioner in the general election, they should allow anyone to vote for commissioner in the primary. Making a voter jump through hoops to switch their party affiliation back and forth in order to exercise what should be their right to have a say in who their commissioner will be just seems like a highly successful attempt at voter suppression.