I do know that if you vote in a primary, you cannot then vote in a runoff for the other party, so they do at least track which primary someone voted in. This happened to me this year. I voted in the Democratic primary because I felt that Trump would easily take the republican nomination and I wanted a say as to the other option.03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:58 amSame here. I was not aware one registered as dem or repub. There is a line on my card where it says which primary I voted in but it is blank with a line to put something in there. I leave mine blank.TxRVer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:13 amA teacher in a Government class said people are registered as democrats, Republicans, and Independents in Texas? I've never seen any of those designations on my voter registration card.bfm1851 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:27 am My wife is taking a few college course to finish up her degree. What was said in on class, Government, was that there are more registered democrats in Texas then republicans. Houston, DFW and Austin account for the majority. What we have to count on is the large amount of people registered as independents.
I agree with C-dub, I moved here some 20 something years ago. I have retired here and planned to stay here. But if Texas goes blue I am not sure what I'll do.
Get those independents out to vote (and make sure they vote Republican)
There was a runoff for down-ballot candidates on both the Democrat and Republican ticket. When I showed up to vote in that run-off I was only able to vote for the Democrats.
If this is where the stats are coming from then everyone who doesn't vote in the primaries (ALOT of people) would show up as "Independent".