Over 12,000 Wyoming voters changed party affiliations between July and September 2018

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[Pollard]

The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office today released data on the number of persons who changed their party affiliation on their voter registration in the weeks before or on the date of the 2018 Primary Election – August 21st.

12,509 persons in total changed their party affiliation between July 6th and September 20th:

• 6,057 Democrats changed and registered as Republicans;
• 4,355 Unaffiliated persons changed and registered as Republicans;
• 744 Unaffiliated persons changed and registered as Democrats;
• 477 members of the Constitution and Libertarian parties changed and registered as Republicans;
• 430 Republicans changed and registered as Democrats; and
• 296 persons of various parties changed and registered as Unaffiliated.

[TheShaz]

So your saying Republicans have a chance in Wyoming?

[z3n]

6,057 Democrats changed and registered as Republicans;
430 Republicans changed and registered as Democrats
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Boom!

Even more amazing considering Wyoming was already fairly republican, wasn’t it?

[snarkytart]

😂

[DoodleDawg]

I’m mildly surprised Wyoming has as many as 6000 Democrats to switch.

[heshtesh]

The Rats are about to get theirs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[Leep]

I’m mildly surprised that more than 10 pubs would switch to Dem.
I could see Ind but Dem?

[PapaBear3625]

Wyoming is super-majority Republican. Republicans control it totally. It may be that Democrats chose to register as Republicans in order to have a voice in the primaries.

[hoosiermama]

Your take ?

[hmmmmm]

How many have, or will, switch back now that the primary is over.

[gasport]

Boom!

Likely to be happening elsewhere.

[Jess Kitting]

Why does one have to declare his/her party affiliation?

I said I was Democrat so I could vote against Hillary in the primaries--and the general election too--as a Democrat.

[LS]

Just a guess. Fed up with the DemoKKKrat Party.

We are seeing a sharp drop off in indies in NC and IA as well, meanwhile, since summer we have seen net gains in registration for Rs.

So the logical conclusion is that indies and Ds are “walkingaway.”

[z3n]

Wyoming probably needs a southern border wall with the greater Denver metro area.

[Red Badger]

Many states, like mine, Florida, have ‘Closed Primaries’ where ONLY PARTY MEMBERS can vote in their primary. Some states have ‘OPEN PRIMARIES’ where you get to vote in one or the other, but not both......................

[mosaicwolf]

"I’m mildly surprised Wyoming has as many as 6000 Democrats to switch."

It is surprising how many of these dimm snowflakes are in around these college towns like Laramie.

[LS]

This comports with all the voter registration shifts I’ve been posting in ALL states (except CA, OR, CO, NJ, and DE-—by 100) for 2 years.

[LS]

Nope. They missed the primary.

This is #WalkAway massive, and is completely in line with my findings in 10/12 battleground states where since 2016 Rs have racked up about a 500,000 net registration gain over Ds, including 60k in FL, 80k in NC, 13k in NM.

[IYAS9YAS]

Could be one of two things. Could be legit and we'll see this carry through to the general election, or they could have switched to just mess with the primary by voting for the weakest GOP candidate.

The bigger question is how many changed back after the primary.

[marktwain]

I said I was Democrat so I could vote against Hillary in the primaries--and the general election too--as a Democrat.

Primaries have been a way to give the Media more control over the election process.

Traditionally, parties controlled who their candidates were.

Primaries gave the media another shot at having great influence on what candidates were considered acceptable for public office. The media had much greater influence on voters than on party leaders(at least on one party).