Yeah in Florida you can only vote for your party’s primary, I thought that was everywhere until I moved to Tennessee. Here you can pick the primary ballot when you arrive and vote only within that party ballot, thought it was weird
Well the primaries are essentially company votes for sponsorship, in which they don’t matter but for that company. So I get the argument that people outside of the party shouldn’t be able to vote in it, but I also wish parties weren’t a thing. The votes for actual positions are on everyones ballots. So you can vote against your party or for anyone, you just can’t influence what the party is sponsoring for that position beforehand because you aren’t registered within that “company.”
It’s all a mess, especially that it’s different everywhere
Yeah in Florida you can only vote for your party’s primary, I thought that was everywhere until I moved to Tennessee. Here you can pick the primary ballot when you arrive and vote only within that party ballot, thought it was weird
“You can only vote for what we tell you to vote for”
Well the primaries are essentially company votes for sponsorship, in which they don’t matter but for that company. So I get the argument that people outside of the party shouldn’t be able to vote in it, but I also wish parties weren’t a thing. The votes for actual positions are on everyones ballots. So you can vote against your party or for anyone, you just can’t influence what the party is sponsoring for that position beforehand because you aren’t registered within that “company.”
It’s all a mess, especially that it’s different everywhere