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RandySF

(60,356 posts) Fri Oct 27, 2017, 12:58 AM Oct 2017

VA-GOV: Republicans may have pissed off Northern Virginia.

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VA-GOV: Republicans may have pissed off Northern Virginia. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2017 OP

Hope there are enough votes there to affect the result. elleng Oct 2017 #1

VA doesn't have party registration... renegade000 Oct 2017 #2

One can also look at the precincts from which the requests are coming. RandySF Oct 2017 #3

Unless it changed in the last decade or so, it has party registration. NutmegYankee Oct 2017 #5

Not true. There is no registration by party in VA. N/t FSogol Oct 2017 #7

I swear I was a registered Democrat there in 1998 NutmegYankee Oct 2017 #8

He's a Trump troll. I wouldn't trust a thing he says. SaschaHM Oct 2017 #4

Yep the GOP is firing up the Purge Program... If you vote democrat... purge. lancelyons Oct 2017 #6

I had to vote absentee ballot on a local referendum. raven mad Oct 2017 #9

elleng

(131,670 posts)

1. Hope there are enough votes there to affect the result.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 01:43 AM

Oct 2017

renegade000

(2,301 posts)

2. VA doesn't have party registration...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 01:51 AM

Oct 2017

So, he can't know it's a surge for Dems, unless he's assuming that NoVA = Dems (which statistically would be justified at this point).

RandySF

(60,356 posts)

3. One can also look at the precincts from which the requests are coming.

Reply to renegade000 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:03 AM

Oct 2017

NutmegYankee

(16,212 posts)

5. Unless it changed in the last decade or so, it has party registration.

Reply to renegade000 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:26 AM

Oct 2017

It had open primaries, but still registration for parties.

FSogol

(45,631 posts)

7. Not true. There is no registration by party in VA. N/t

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 06:45 AM

Oct 2017

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NutmegYankee

(16,212 posts)

8. I swear I was a registered Democrat there in 1998

Reply to FSogol (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 10:56 AM

Oct 2017

maybe I mixed it up with another place I lived. I remember the open primaries with the pledge to only vote in one parties primary.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)

4. He's a Trump troll. I wouldn't trust a thing he says.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:05 AM

Oct 2017

lancelyons

(988 posts)

6. Yep the GOP is firing up the Purge Program... If you vote democrat... purge.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:56 AM

Oct 2017

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

9. I had to vote absentee ballot on a local referendum.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 08:29 PM

Oct 2017

But spouse reported lots of folks in line ahead of him. GO VIRGINIA!

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