What floors me is how many voters claim to be "registered Republicans" in states like Illinois that have no party registration and they let you pick which party ballot you want when you show up for the primary election. They may have a record of voting in GOP primaries, but they're not "registered" with that party.
Liberals particularly like to claim to be "registered Republicans" whenever they're trying to sway the GOP to move left: "I'm a registered Republican and I support gay marriage". Sure, and I'm a registered member of MENSA.
The other one that gets me is voters who request "punch cards" and demand to know where's the one button they can press to "vote a straight party ticket". This was going on rampantly during Pat Quinn's stolen election over Bill Brady in 2010. These people claim to have voted in every election, but somehow failed to notice that punch cards were eliminated in Illinois in 2002 (thanks to the infamous Bush-Gore battle in Florida) and one-punch straight ticket voting was eliminated way back in 1980 or something along those lines. When the dummies find out they actually have to find the D candidate on the ballot manually, they just punch RAT for Governor or President, leave the rest of their ballot blank, and then cast their vote. Gotta love lazy RAT voting zombies.
Polls show the number of voters who identify as "Independents" is at all-time high, but it sure doesn't seem that way whenever people up on election. For every voter who hates to choose a partisan ballot, there's five more claiming to be a registered member of one and demanding a straight-party ticket.
Straight ticket voting was eliminated in 1996 by the lame duck GOP legislature after the election.
I remember “Punch (whatever)” vote straight rat ads from 1996.
Possibly if they had abolished it in 1995 the rats wouldn’t have taken back the state house in 1996.