Why is there no school this Tuesday?

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Anonymous wrote:Presidential primary. Large turnout expected because in Virginia you don’t have to register as a Democrat or Republican and many Dems are going to vote repub to get Trump off the ticket.

My mail in ballot only has one party to choice from

The ballot you have is the one you chose.

If requesting a ballot for a primary election, you must indicate a political party preference. Virginia is an open primary state meaning any voter can vote in either primary. Since voters cannot register by party, they must indicate the primary they would like to vote in for a ballot to be sent.

But why require a choice at all? It’s not required for non mail in ballots.

Yes it is, you have to tell them which ballot you want (D or R) when you enter the polling site. There are no ballots where you can vote for both parties’ candidates, mail-in or otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Presidential primary. Large turnout expected because in Virginia you don’t have to register as a Democrat or Republican and many Dems are going to vote repub to get Trump off the ticket.

They’re all voting for Nikki?

Do you guys not get how primaries work? You’re only voting for who you want to be that party’s candidate in a primary. Since Biden is de facto the Dem candidate, a lot of Democrats choose to not waste their vote further validating that and instead focus on voting for the least-harmful or most easily-beatable Republican candidate to try to block off the worst ones from the ballot. Most of us did this in 2016 too, I believe I voted for John Kasich that year.

Why would it be a waste of a vote to affirm, with overwhelming support, the guy who saved this country from a second Trump term?
THAT would send a message, especially in light of efforts in other states to drag him down.
I swear people are so ungrateful.

We’ll do that in November.