I would have to register as a republican or demoRat to vote as there were no independent candidates.
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And you knew that going into the process, I presume.
I would have registered independent here in MD, but did not for the express reason that I would not be able to vote in the primary.
I knew that in 1976 when I registered to vote. I was 18.
Republicans have been having problems for quite a while here in Colorado. I used to support them until Christie came to Colorado with $175,000 for an attack add against conservative Tom Tancredo and disenfranchised many republicans form voting and insured the election of demorat John Chickenpooper. The republicans rewroet their rules this year to keep people like christie out of the race and Cruz came in and took over. The process sucks.