# Registering with the "wrong" party to influence a primary

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registering-with-the-wrong-party-to-influence-a-primary/442134>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registering-with-the-wrong-party-to-influence-a-primary/442134 "2008-03-20T20:42:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registering-with-the-wrong-party-to-influence-a-primary/442134/3 "2008-03-20T20:51:54Z")

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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.

And that applies whether they left the door open, or you had to climb through a window to do it.

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