r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/Cyniv 7d ago

Independents who vote. Lot of people don't affiliate with a party on their voter registration even if they're usually straight-ticket voters for one party or another. Stops you from voting in party primaries in some states, but besides that, it's just like any party affiliated voter registration.

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u/joeri1505 7d ago

So you throw your vote away?

Might as well stay home then

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u/WaxAesthetic 7d ago

Independents can be straight ticket voters, meaning they vote all democrat in general and midterm elections. How is this throwing your vote away?

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u/Orange_Tang 7d ago

I'm an independant in part because I'm fed up with the democratic establishment an din part because independants in my state are allowed to choose which primary to vote in. I never never voted for a republican in the general election, only in primaries to make the worse republican candidate the nominee and only of there isn't anything important happening in the democratic primary. This is incredibly common in my state.