The deadline to register or change your party affiliation for the primary election is today at 5 p.m. Florida is a closed primary state which means that you must be registered with one of the major parties in order to receive that party's ballot in a primary election. If you are registered non-party affiliation, your ballot will contain only non-partisan races in the primary.
Hopefully, no one decided to jump on this local rendition of "Operation Chaos" to throw the results of our Republican Primary Election. Hernando County Taxpayer's Alliance, with the assistance of local talk radio, has been promoting the idea of swaying the primary election, by having democrats, and the non-party affiliated, change their party status to skew the results of this partisan race for Republicans. Their flawed logic is, 'if your candidate of choice does not get elected in the primary, than you have no one to vote for in the general election'.
It is kind of ironic that these are the same individuals that railed on Senator Paula Dockery last spring for her legislative attempt to have Florida become an open primary state...
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