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Originally Posted by Pballer
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.
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This is absolutely NOT "Voter Suppression" in any way, shape or form.
Florida is a Primary State.
There are many other states who follow these same rules.
We "checked out" election policies before we choose to move to the Great State of Florida.
We got to know our Board of Elections Supervisor upon landing here to make sure they had the knowledge to operate fair election cycles.
We invite and meet with our candidates on a regular basis to make sure they are intellectuals, not dummies looking to milk the system . We are informed voters.
Therefore, Primary Elections come as no surprise to us.
The other party did not have a motivated candidate to run.
Anyone could have run,
but they did not, so there is only one party represented, thus that party votes in the Primary for "their candidate" to move then forward into the General Election.
Candidates on both sides must be 'motivated' to do what it takes to run for election.
Evidently, there were no Democrats who chose to compete for the seat.
If the tables were turned, and there was only a Democrat running for the seat, Republicans would not be allowed to vote in their Primary.
Charging "Voter Suppression" is like saying The Villages aren't fair because they have RULES.