That part sounds illegal.
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Michigan has open primaries and I highly recommend it. I never had to register with any political party, I decide which primary ballot to fill in (on those occasions when more than one party has a primary), then later fill in my election ballot however I want.
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The text said workers, the video states watchers. Either way, this is highly illegal.
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That was my experience. You need two people to do anything an and everything is check and rechecked, and if there is any sort of difference in numbers, checked again.
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Agree with @IronEdithKidd, although we’re both talking about Midwestern states, so it might be different in other parts of the country: elections are always on a Tuesday, so school is in session, but the pathway to the gym is kept clear for only voters on that day and the kids have to work around that.
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Fortunately, the concept of ‘secret ballot’ is technically still true, so they’re not supposed to know if you in fact change your voting between the primary and general elections.
As Country First puts it:
Indiana election law stipulates that in order to participate in a party’s primary, a voter must have either voted for a majority of that party’s nominees in the last general election or must intend to vote for a majority of the party’s nominees in the upcoming general election. In practice, however, secret balloting makes this provision of the law unenforceable. This creates an open primary system in which voters can participate in the primary election of their choice.*
in this state, voting in the Republican Party will technically affiliate you with the party - but it’s simple to change back after the election. Rest assured, you do NOT have to change your belief system or politics to participate in the primary of a party with which you do not personally identify.
ETA, because I’ve already done 2 posts in a row:
That’s Illinois too.
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I have seen that before. How the hell do they propose enforcing that?
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In VA, schools are closed on election day. Makes using schools for polling places much easier, but makes getting to the polls considerably harder for working parents. So, yeah, as expected. I have frequently seen (usually moms) herding kids through the line to vote. On the one hand, good for them to see how the system (theoretically) works. On the other hand, makes it harder on the parents, and frequently on the other voters as the kids tear around and play.
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They can’t, not without breaking the law, which voters’ rights groups point out.
A different issue is that, depending on where you are, there may only be one candidate per office on the primary party ballot, so then what’s the point of voting in that primary?
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I always made sure to bring my kids when they were little for just that reason: to see how to do it – among other things, that it’s not hard – and to understand that voting is very important. I also took each of them the first time they themselves were able to vote.
When I was a child I was roped in to help on a lot of different political campaigns, but also with the general aspects of voting, such as with the League of Women Voters. There was a mini contraption that mimicked the manual pull-down levers that used to be how one voted, and that was part of how we taught people.
Kind of like this:
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Ah, the good old days…
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… where people could vote for a Bush
… whose son would become president
(can we institute family term limits too? Not sure how that’d work, but it’d be nice)
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Yup. Until I got my absentee ballot application, Jr. Kidd went with me to vote every time since kindergarten. I mean every time. Primaries, specials and the regular ones in Nov.
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Yeesh. Can we all just please vote by mail like a civilized modern society?
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