Posted on 05/31/2022 7:26:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day.
But when the time came, the 54-year-old Georgia Democrat cast a ballot in last week’s Republican primary for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. While state law allowed her to participate in either party’s primary, she said it felt like a violation of her core values to vote for the Republican. But it had to be done, she decided, to prevent a Donald Trump -backed “election denier” from becoming the battleground state’s election chief.
“I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk, and that people who are holding up the big lie, as we call it, and holding onto the former president are dangerous to democracy,” said Murray, who works at the University of Georgia. “I don’t know I’ll do it again because of how I felt afterward. I just felt icky.”
Raffensperger, a conservative who refused to support the former president’s direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, probably would not have won the May 24 Republican primary without people like Murray.
An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters. Even taking into account the limited sample of early votes, the data reveal that crossover voters were consequential in defeating Trump’s hand-picked candidates for secretary of state and, to a lesser extent, governor.
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So the dims are using operation chaos against us. Open primaries need to be ended.
Civil War just no uniformed armies fighting right now.
So, will republican voters dutifully go to the polls and re-elect the democrat’s preferred candidate?
RATS cheat whenever possible.
So they stole the primary, too. I figured as much.
And the tard AP reporting this. Color me confused? /s
37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters
I be willing to bet that the number was higher than that.
A while back someone posted a link to REDDIT, where the liberals in Georgia were discussing this exact thing. Talking about how they can vote in the primaries as compared to the general election.
They can’t win without cheating and manipulation.
On a side note, Republicans did vote for Raffensberger and Kemp. How that happened is something I’ll never understand.
Open primaries make absolutely zero sense and are evil. Makes you laugh when Diane Murray complains “I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk” as she uses the open primary against the Republicans.
“Raffensperger, a conservative”
AP - a snake pit of rat propagandists and low life scumbags
Some democrats are becoming Freepers to push for Biden’s Ukraine War. Nothing new here.
In Georgia the will. Without a doubt.
The voters here are not willing to acknowledge that Kemp and his cronies are doing just as much damage to the state as Abrams would. And he’s not even doing it slower.
If Abrams wins, she will be against a legislature that can override any vetoes. So, she won’t be that effective.
However, with Kemp, they’re all on the same team and they’ll rubber stamp anything coming out of his office, even if it’s the same exact policy that Abrams would push.
The classic ‘crossover vote’ tactic. Nothing new.
“The End Justifies The Means”. Straight out of the Marxist playbook.
These people have no integrity. They will do absolutely anything to win. And RINOs let it happen.
Primaries are not, or should not be, public events where anyone can vote.
Making a primary election (for the purpose of choosing a party’s candidate) a function of the State supports and to a degree makes “official” a two-party system - which, as we all know, is functionally a Uniparty system.
The next step forward in making the Uniparty the official ruling party, leading party, guiding party, light of the nation, etc, etc is this business of allowing anyone to vote in either party’s primary. It DOES NOT MATTER which party you support - as long as you pick one wing, or one arm, of the Uniparty.
This, at a time when both parties are held in contempt by many people, in some places and at some times, a majority.
We are not voting our way out of this.
If I were a Democrat, I’d definitely vote to protect the fraudsters. No hesitation whatsoever.
Open primaries are great if you don’t mind the other party picking your candidate.
You use the term "republican voters" like it is a cohesive group who share goals and objectives.
This isn't even close to true.
Thank you AP for displaying the desperation of the leftist in this country....For shining a light how Trump absolutely broke these folks....for showing the country how at the end of the protecting the right to steal an election is more importantly than party loyalty.... bravo!!
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