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[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

What % of total voters is a "registered republican"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There’s no way to know exactly. Some states don’t disclose the voter registration statistics. North Dakota doesn’t even require party registration to vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

WAIT YOU HAVE TO BE REGISTERED TO A PARTY TO VOTE?!?

what the actual fuck. how does that not subvert the secret ballot???

[–] captain_aggravated 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Many Americans such as myself are registered as Independents.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You’re not required to vote in alignment with your registration. It simply allows you to vote in the primary for your party.

I switch my registration to Republican when there’s a Democratic incumbent so I can vote in the primary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You have to register as x or y to be allowed to vote though?? Like I knew all the other fucked up parts of the whole US system, but this just fundamentally breaks the secret ballot. It doesn't matter if you don't have to align your actual vote.

It's like y'all saw us (Australia) doing the secret vote thing and thought "how could we fuck up implementing that?"...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can register without party affiliation, or under under any party, not just Republican or Democrat.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Stop treating rural republicans, chuds, incels, and conservatives, as human beings. The problem is that too many democrats want to go back to the "good old days" of bipartisanship. Those days are long gone.

We have to treat any republican, no matter how "reasonable" as an enemy of democracy and the United States. It doesn't matter if they're family, friends, co-workers, etc. This is who they really are.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

How does anyone know who voted for what?

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