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This is exactly why I changed my registration to independent in 2016. I knew this shit was coming and I for one am not willingly putting myself on a registered "enemies list" for a fascist fuckwit to use against me. Unfortunately in NY that means I can't vote in primaries...
That may not help though, if you don't support them, you're a target. You don't have to be dem to be targeted you just have to be a problem.
I suppose, but if I'm ever questioned about it I can just make up some b.s about living in NY and was afraid that the evil leftist communist Venezuela loving Democrats would hurt me if I registered as Republican.
Hope you posted this on a VPN and have never logged into your account without it
at the end of the day we're all fucked anyway
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/breaking-encryption-with-quantum-computers-may-be-easier-than-we-thought
We don't have party affiliation on the voter registration forms here though.
The information includes what party's primary you voted in.
Wonder what they would make of switching back and forth between primaries election to election...
In terms of campaign analytics and polling profiling that would make you an independent voter and likely to receive attention from the campaigns you are eligible to vote for/against.
Well, more from a hypothetical suppression perspective. I certainly know I get a lot of unwanted mailings for elections from all sides since I change primaries based on either whom I want to win, or alternatively if there's someone I really don't want to win and need to vote for a competitor, weighted against the relative likelihood of the vote mattering in that particular race in my particular area..
I think it would make you a "see how they vote after the first wave" on their suppression schedule. Like if it scares you into voting "correctly" after all the reliable "wrong" voters are purged ... then you can keep voting.
Of course, it's funny because they have no idea if I'm voting 'for' the party in question or voting to try to keep the party in question from putting up someone like Trump, even if I still want them to lose either way.
I think in '24 the Republican primary ballot had a measure for closing the primaries, so I think they're getting wise.
My point is that it's not stored as part of your voter registration data. We have open primaries and they record which you voted in so that you can only vote in primary runoffs if you voted in that same year's original primary.
Good to know, but they do want this nationally. Texas was just eager to assist.
The whole premise of "registering as a xxxxxx" is screwed up.
When I lived in Texas I registered as a Republican so I could vote in the primary.
Might actually be a good idea if everyone registered as Republican. Then there's no way to tell who's really going to vote for them. Hah, sorry I forgot there probably won't be any more votes.
Interesting, Barron Von J just told me Texas doesn't have party affiliation on their registrations.
Not sure who to trust.
That is technically correct, but immaterial from a practical standpoint. The party affiliation is per calendar year - when you vote in one party's primary you are "registered" as that party for a year, so you can't vote in the other parties' primaries. So the primaries are nominally open unlike states with party affiliation on the registration, but practically there's no difference from closed primaries.