Some Tea Party Republicans in South Carolina are voting for Bernie Sanders..yikes🙄 [View all]

[Iamaartist]

Karen Martin is an organizer for a local Tea Party group in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a registered Republican. On February 29, she’ll cast a vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
Some Republicans, including the president’s son, have been boosting Sanders, perhaps to encourage division within the Democratic Party. But Martin told me that her vote is about proving a different point.
She and other members of the Tea Party movement in South Carolina want to end the state’s open primary system, which they believe leads to excessively moderate candidates breaking through. “We’re not necessarily looking to disrupt any additional things. And we really don’t care who comes out of South Carolina on top,” she said




Crossover voting — when voters from one party vote in the other’s primary to lift a specific candidate — isn’t new. With open primaries in more than 20 states, crossover voting has been a part of primary politics for years. In fact, it was in South Carolina (and Michigan) two decades ago that hundreds of Democrats switched affiliations to vote for then-presidential candidate John McCain, an effort the Bush campaign then used against McCain.
Back in 2000, a Bush campaign spokesperson denounced the purported “alliance between the limousine-liberal Democrats and the McCain campaign” as “distorting the intent of real Republican vote


cross-party voting is not a good thing. We have to protect our elections from this or we will lose like 2016



paper ballot is a must...


https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21126962/crossover-voting-south-carolina-republicans-tea-party-bernie-sanders



We voted for Joe on absentee ballot..our ballot had just Dem party on it. Although Bloomberg was on Michigan ballot.








One Vote.....only