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Primary Crossover Voting: Could It Make a Difference? [1]

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Date: 2024-01-22  

My state has an open primary. By that I mean that on Primary Election Day, you just tell the poll worker which party’s ballot you want, and that’s the ballot you get, regardless of any party affiliation you may have. I want to do whatever I can to have the person with 91 felony indictments have a poor showing in the primary, and so I am planning to vote in the Republican primary for someone else (Haley if she is still in it). I am just thinking: if great numbers of Democrats go this route , then this would keep the numbers for the unhinged candidate below 50%. If Haley is still in the race, and the democrats vote for her, she may even win in a state like mine. Even though such an outcome in a few states would almost surely not prevent him from getting the Republican nomination, it can’t hurt to be able to say that he got less than half of the vote — if the effect is that some small slice of registered Republicans abstain from voting for him or maybe even decide to vote for Biden, then it seems worth it.

Anyway, the first list below gives the states that appear to have open presidential primaries (i.e., each voter can vote in one primary of their own choosing). In some states, only unaffiliated voters are able to select the party whose primary they can participate in), and the 2nd list below gives these states. Since Biden has no real competition in the Democratic primaries, then why not have as many Democrats and Independents as possible vote against the WOAT in the Republican primary in these states?

OPEN PRIMARIES (any voter can choose the primary ballot of their choice)

February 24: South Carolina

February 27: Michigan

March 2: Missouri

March 4: North Dakota

March 5: Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia

March 12: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, Washington*

April 2: Wisconsin

April 6: North Dakota

June 4: Montana

*- must declare a party affiliation, but this will be dropped 60 days after the primary election

OPEN TO INDEPENDENTS (Unaffiliated voters can choose the primary ballot of their choice):

January 23: New Hampshire

March 5: Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina

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