“And if there is a primary of interest, one can temporarily affiliate in less time than it takes to fill out the ballot. Just plan ahead and affiliate 30 days in advance. “
That’s EXACTLY what I did for the Prez caucus back in August. Was a complete waste of time though, as the insiders had the thing 100% rigged for Cruz. The Dems were apparently no better, having rigged it for Hillary.
The one good thing that did come out of that whole caucus fiasco, is that we’re likely to ditch the archaic and arcane caucus system and end up with an actual primary ELECTION from here on out if the the ballot initiatives pass tomorrow.
A Democrat I know says that in their system, delegates elected in the caucuses have their votes for non-Presidential offices recorded (at the subsequent assemblies, etc.), so that caucus attendees can theoretically find out how the delegates they elected actually voted. If this is true, then this is the only case I know of where the Democrats have a better (or at least, less evil) system than the Republicans. On all the occasions when I was a Republican delegate to various assemblies and conventions, I could have cast every vote for Daffy Duck and no one would have ever known.