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Originally Posted by MowMyOwn
I was registered Decline to State for many years . . . the only problem is if you wanted to vote for a Republican in the Primaries, you had to re-register as Republican for your vote to count - not so with the Democrats, they'll take anyone's vote in the Primaries.
For the General election, you can be Decline to State and vote for whoever, I'm not sure why they don't do the same for the primaries.
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Don't you get it? The only reason for the primaries is to provide a voting apparatus for the two parties of the "two party system". That is the only reason. There are "third parties" who get to participate too in order to dignify the process, like the "Independent Party". When they hold the primaries, they have to print up different ballots for each political party. When you go to vote, you identify yourself to the poll workers and the poll workers look you up and
see what your political party is and give you the right ballot according to what your political party is. The poll workers understand that some political parties allow "decline to state" voters to participate with other party's ballot and so if you are Decline to State, sometimes you have your option to choose a party's ballot. Decline to State voters have their own ballot too so that they may vote for issues that are being voted along side the party's primary elections.
Of course when the actual constitutionally mandated elections come along, there is only one ballot. It makes absolutely no difference what the political parties the candidates belong to.
No candidate for any office anywhere in the US, local, state or federal, need belong to any political party at all in order to run or serve.
The primaries are a huge mess and expensive too and only exist to subsidize, with your tax dollars, the "Two Party System".