I have never lived in a state where people were required to register as anything. We just asked for a ballot for one of the parties during the primary election. I am nit sure what being registered as Independent means. There is no Independent Party. Shouldn’t that be called “unaffiliated”, but again, so what? He is going out of office and I am betting he will continue to caucus with the Democrats. Does this give him some kind of leverage with Schumer? The clock is still close to running out on him so, so what?
I’m a believer that if we are going to have a party system then only members of that party should be involved in picking that party’s candidate. To allow Dems to vote I the primary to pick the Rep candidate and vis-a-visa is akin to having the foxes vote for who is guarding the hen house !