Ahead of a looming March 31st deadline, some Democratic and unaffiliated voters in Utah are switching their party affiliation in order to participate in the upcoming Republican primary elections.
In their study, Princeton researchers outlined that two-thirds of voters who registered as Republican ahead of the primary election were previously unaffiliated voters.
“The contention that Democratic voters tried to “game” the system by switching parties to vote in the 2020 Republican primary is not supported by the data from the Utah Election Board,” according to researchers. “Any pre-primary growth in the Republican party was driven by newly registered Republicans and formerly unaffiliated voters, not by party-switching Democrats.
The Utah Democratic Party declined to comment on members of their switching political parties ahead of the Republican primary elections. Her breaking point was reached after the Utah Legislature discarded redistricting maps recommended by the state’s independent redistricting commission in favor of their own. The state is currently“I’ve been thinking about changing my registration in the past few election cycles just because it feels like as a Democrat in Utah, it’s pretty hard to have a voice here,” she said.
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