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The presidential primary in North Carolina comes soon, in less than a month, on May 6. So, is it too late for you to register to vote in the primary? Not at all. The voter registration deadline is this month.
That’s an invitation for election manipulation.
North Carolina’s primary is semi-open, meaning that independents can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, just by showing up at a polling station on the day of the election and saying which party’s primary they want to vote in.
That’s bad enough, but the election deadline just weeks before the North Carolina presidential primary is practically an invitation for people of one political party to re-register as members of the other party in order to meddle in the other party’s election. This year, with John McCain already selected as the nominee of the Republican Party, there is no reason for North Carolina Republicans to go vote in their own party primary.
Instead, those North Carolina Republicans, along with the state’s mostly right wing independents, can flood into the Democratic presidential primary, and vote for the candidate that matches their values. There’s even the possibility that Democratic voters could be outnumbered by Republicans and independents.
Why would any state arrange for such a corrupt primary election system?
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April 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
When independents are invited to vote in a primary, that’s a SEMI-CLOSED primary.
Each North Carolina party has the right to prohibit independents from voting in its primary. Thus, if a party’s primary is hijacked, the party has only itself to blame.
North Carolina, by the way, is one of the 29 states that registers voters by party.
I understand that the poll workers won’t be volunteering the fact that independents may vote in either party’s primary.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Actually there are many NC offices with many cadidates from both parties subject to a primary. I don’t think the Presidency is all that big of an issue anyway, as all three currently viable candidates are nut cases.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
In what way is Barack Obama a “nut case”. Crazy how? I don’t see any sign of insanity.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
That wouldn’t be the Steve Rankin from Eureka, would it?
You notice Gall doesn’t ask about the other two candidates–too deep into the koolaid.