[a fool in paradise]

The letter quotes the Democratic Party's bylaws which state if a candidate fails to vote in at least three of the last five democratic primaries he can be challenged as "not being a bona fide member of the democratic party" and kept off the ballot.

And I'm of the mind that you should have to STRAIGHT PARTY vote in a general election before you can vote in the primary for the GOP. Unfortunately, this will never be the case. I don't care once you're in the party affiliation, but too often people cross over to weaken the candidacy and then go back to the Rats in the general election.

[radu]

Several TN Republican citizens have been fighting for closed primaries to stop the cross-over voting. Right now, we’re concentrating on Nov. but after the elections, we’re going full-bore on those closed primaries.
We succeeded in getting photo ID to vote passed, so maybe we’ll succeed in this too. We aren’t giving up.