Anyone registered to vote can choose a Republican or Democratic ballot. Many of the people on the Democratic ballot (in my area) are running unopposed, so it was a good opportunity to try to get the least crazy people on the November ballot. Also, the republican ballot has 13 propositions that are not on the Democratic one, so that’s your only chance to have a say in those (and IMO they are really really bad!)
Same. Thanks to who’s who can stomach it, but I’m not one of them. I used the League of Women Voters Vote411 project to research everyone on my ballot, and there were a couple races that were difficult because I liked multiple people running and had a hard time choosing just one.
Can’t see that happening in a race between two or more R’s.