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So, if you’ve already voted in the initial primary, you have to stay with the same party in any runoff? You can’t switch parties for the runoff?

ELECTION CODE
TITLE 10. POLITICAL PARTIES
SUBTITLE B. PARTIES NOMINATING BY PRIMARY ELECTION
CHAPTER 172. PRIMARY ELECTIONS
SUBCHAPTER E. CONDUCT OF ELECTION

Sec. 172.125. ADDITIONAL PROCEDURE FOR ACCEPTING VOTERS IN RUNOFF.
(a) For a runoff primary election, the voter registrar shall enter on the list of registered voters a notation beside each voter's name indicating the preceding party primary for which the voter was accepted for voting, if any.
(b) An election officer at a runoff primary election polling place shall determine whether the name of a voter offering to vote is noted on the list as having been accepted for voting in another party's primary. If the voter's name is so noted, the voter may not be accepted for voting at the runoff unless the voter executes an affidavit stating that the voter did not vote in the primary or participate in a convention of another party during the same voting year.

You may not switch parties in between primary and runoff, in Texas. You can switch parties between now and November though.

Texas Statutes

>>You may not switch parties in between primary and runoff, in Texas.<<

Thanks for the info. That makes Operation Texas Chaos a little more complicated, but not much.

OPERATION TEXAS CHAOS

Purpose: To utterly embarrass the national Democrat Party and President Obama

Method: Every GOP voter who did not cast a vote in the GOP primary remains eligible to vote in the Democrat runoff primary. Do so, and vote for Rogers, the black candidate who advocates impeaching Obama, repealing Obamacare, rebuilding NASA, and who thinks global warming is a crock.

My main fear is that when she wins, which with sufficient GOP support she almost certainly would, GOP voters who don’t like Cornyn might vote again for her in the general election. Then I find myself wondering whether that would be a bad thing. It would certainly accomplish the Purpose of Operation Texas Chaos.

It would also likely mark the end of open primaries, and that would be a truly good thing.