Questions About Primaries

[EagleD]

As I understand it, the primaries are a function of each party, not of the state. However, they use state resources (voting machines, election officials, etc.) to carry out these primary elections. Based on that:

Do the parties pay the state for these resources?

If there is voter fraud in a primary, has a law actually been broken? Remember, it's a function of the party, not the state.

Why can't a person vote in both primaries? It's not as though you would be voting for the same person more than once, just more than one primary.

I believe I've posed this question before, but the cold meds I'm taking are blocking my memory bank.

This seems to be the biggest complaint about the two party system. Tea party, Green party, Liberetarian party etc. face huge obstacles b/c it seems like the system is rigged in their favor.

Thx.

[MCMLXXX]

This should answer most of your questions.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/EL/htm/EL.173.htm

As far as voting in more than one primary that defeats the whole purpose of a primary which is to place the parties candidates on the ballot.