...Apparently you can't vote for multiple parties in the WI primary even if you don't just get lazy and simply check one. The computer rejected my mix of Republicans and Libertarians, despite only voting one person per office.
Party line voting is retarded.
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Agreed. While there was only one libertarian its still crap. What happened to voting not along party lines? I thought that my vote counted, so if I wanted to vote for someone else I'm forced to "throw my vote away?" Augh.
What happens if your registered as an independent?
You have to vote along those "Party" lines as well. IE, you can not vote for Democrat, Republican, Libertarian partys, just candidates that are registered as an independent
How I understand it, if I had marked the "Indipendent" bubble at the top, it would have given my vote to the couple people actually running as Indies and the other offices would be lost to the aether unless you actually took the time to write in a name.
So where I wanted to vote for about 75% of the people running as Republicans, and the one or two running as Libertarians, and write myself in for Sherriff as a Libertarian (current one was running unapposed, and I don't much care for the guy), the computer rejected my ballot.
I think it has to do with the computer system they use and a way to ensure you only mark one candidate for each office. Still pretty stupid.
Thankfully I don't think the general election works that way.
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