This is just for primaries, you register to vote with the state as well.

In Canada, those votes happen independently as decided (deemed necessary) internally by the party, and public participation is much less common.

What's the purpose of a primary election? It's to select a party's candidate for a general election. It's not very obvious that this should even be a democratic process, but if it is, why shouldn't party members be the ones selecting their own candidates?

How do you envision this working without the "opposing party" poisoning the vote to get a weaker opponent?

I envision that it does not matter, because this is a tactic that would 1) be available to all, and 2) it gives up your vote for someone of your own party, thereby weakening your own position. It's self regulating.

You would still forfeit the ability to vote in your primary though. I do think there are people that do this, but most people want to vote in their primary regardless of whether it's a landslide.

Is actual party membership required?

Or, in effect, are you just required to claim either that you're more of a cat person, or that you're more of a dog person?

Yeah it's the latter. The US does not have party membership the way that, say, the UK does. In many states, it's open primary. In Colorado, for instance, I get mailed Democratic and Republican primary ballots and can vote by mailing in either one. I think you get neither counted if you mail in both, but I have no idea; I've never tried it.

The last time anyone tried to poison a presidential election by promoting a weaker candidate on the other side in the US, it was the Democrats boosting Trump in 2016. It did not work out.

For an alternate example, in Illinois you choose one at primary election time and only get that one. This year the options are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Non-Partisan (which means only the referendums, not the elections).

I feel the same. I don't want to hear about it all the time (although I welcome discussion). I wish this site would go back to talking about other tech things.

> Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/

I do this to great effect with Emacs daemon mode.

Yes but KDE actually needs money, unlike Wikipedia.

I currently go to school for engineering, and it is the same way.

Woodpecker?

In CS you have a 20 second+ buy phase where you can't move.

Yes but this is discussing deliberately injecting malware into an open source project, which differs from exploiting a vulnerability that exists in one.

Its possible that I was born after the creation of your account.

Have you done any offshore races?