As election day approaches, social media posts warn of a nefarious plot to limit who can vote in California‘s Republican presidential primary. So too would be changing election rules to split local leadership races from the GOP presidential primary. Republicans are not alone in segregating their presidential primary from California’s open-to-everyone races for Congress and the Legislature. The question of whether to allow unaffiliated voters to cast presidential votes has divided the state’s six political parties into two equal-sized camps. In 2016, no party preference voters played a sizable role in the state’s Democratic presidential primary — though there were some reports that independent voters found the procedures to cast a ballot confusing.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2020 12:56 UTC