# Loyalty oath in Virginia

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 31, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loyalty-oath-in-virginia/607903 "2011-12-31T01:45:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loyalty-oath-in-virginia/607903/22 "2011-12-31T17:29:28Z")

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Here’s a condemnation from 2008:

> [@Registering with the "wrong" party to influence a primary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registering-with-the-wrong-party-to-influence-a-primary/442134/3):
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> Voting in somebody’s primary specifically for the purpose of trying to achieve something that would be universally agreed upon by all _real_ members of the party to be a bad thing, seems to me to be morally equivalent to sneaking into somebody’s house and trying to trash the place - basically, you have to be a scumbag to do it, and it ought to be illegal.
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> And that applies whether they left the door open, or you had to climb through a window to do it.

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