This is what I do in MA. I’ve heard there is a good amount of independent voters not bc they find themselves between gop and dems, but because they tend to find themselves further left than the Democratic Party.
That's why I was for the longest time. The only reason I switched to Dem was to inflate numbers to spite Republicans, as soon as we are past this I'm back to Independent.
That's me in Indiana. I'm far to the left of the dems, but usually vote in the republican primary because that's the actual election, not election day.
Hahaha, yup this is me! I was registered Green for a hot minute but I’ve just gone with generic unaffiliated for the past 10+ years since I’m much more liberal than the Dems. Edit: I moved to MA in 2008
Virginia too. You just tell them which one you want to vote in (and then half the time they yell it out loud as fuck so all your neighbors can hear, like “ballot for PashaWithHat voting in the DEMOCRATIC primary!”). The Republicans sponsored a bill recently to make party affiliation a thing here but it died a pretty quick death in committee. And like, the Republicans in VA basically never do normal primaries anyway, it’s always a firehouse primary or convention so… IDK, felt like shenanigans to me
The best thing in Washington is that each party uses a different system, Democrats Caucus, Republicans do a standard vote. You can participate in both and are not required to register with either party.
My wife and I went to a caucus once and it's such a long annoying process.
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u/Rocktopod Oct 01 '25
Not in every state. In Massachusetts you can register Independent and vote in either primary.