Opinion of false-flagging blue avatars

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Some could say this of me, as I am likely to vote for more Democrats than Republicans this year (for parochial reasons).

A number of these "false-flaggers" are from Florida.  Florida is a Party Registration state, and a state where most local offices are decided on a partisan basis.  I live in a county which is heavily Republican; the only Democrats that get elected are those that run for non-partisan offices and luck out.   Mizzoulan is like me; a Republican supporting Bill Nelson.  If I were not a registered Republican, I would not be able to vote in the primary for offices such as County Commission, County Sheriff, County Tax Collector, all of whom affect my life LOCALLY.  Democrats have no chance at those offices, and what happens is that there is often a "write-in" candidate sponsored by the GOP that runs which ensures that the primary is for registered Republicans, only.  (It would be open to all IF there were no Democrats running, no independents/third party candidates, and no write-ins.)

If they're REGISTERED Republicans, however, they ARE part of the GOP's primary electorate.  I may represent a minority of the GOP primary electorate, and a green avatar for Independents may better describe me, but I AM, very much, of the GOP's primary electorate.  Mizzoulan is as well, and, depending on where he lives, Mondale may actually be as well.  It's a consequence of "party registration".

So, no, these people are not being dishonest if they are actually registered in that party, or who vote inthat party's primary regularly.  That's the thing about partisanship in America; you're a Republican or a Democrat pretty much if you say you are.  If you're actively participating in an primary of one of the major parties, you're part of that party's constituency, regardless of what your ideas are, and that party needs to take you, and people like you, into account.  Indeed, one reason Trump won the GOP nomination was that the GOP as a whole really didn't know its own electorate as well as they thought they did.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

In fairness I didn’t choose the first time. The lady at the DMV saw that I was a white dude from Huntington Beach and marked me off as a Republican without asking. Since I’m young, dumb, and American (last two are a bit repetitive) I didn’t bother to read much of what I was filling out either. California ballots are nonpartisan so I can vote for Janet Nguyen (R) AND Harley Rouda (D) in both the GE and the primaries.

Is that not illegal or something?

Probably.

It's an act that is more enfranchising/disfranchising in some states than others.  Such an act could conceivably render a voter incapable of voting in primaries for the local officials in elections where winning the primary of the dominant party is tantamount to victory.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Some could say this of me, as I am likely to vote for more Democrats than Republicans this year (for parochial reasons).

...like me; a Republican supporting Bill Nelson.

Why are you supporting Nelson? Even if you don't like Scott for whatever reason; how can you, given the views that you have, think anything good would come out of Democrats taking back the Senate?

Nelson is one of the more moderate and reasonable Democrats, and Scott is morally unfit for public office.  I cannot bring myself to vote for someone who, in a deposition, took the Fifth Amendment 75 times.

A political convention cheered, "LOCK HER UP!" about Hillary Clinton.  What should be said about a man who took the Fifth Amendment 75 times in a deposition surrounding an investigation into the most massive Medicare fraud in history, at a company Scott was CEO of?