Labrat,
I cannot think of any benefit from surreptitiously changing a large number voters from one party to another without their knowledge.
The likelihood of human error (someone, somewhere, goofed big time) seems more reasonable to me than that someone hatched a devious plot to keep large numbers of people from voting in their party's primary.
(The only way I can see someone benefiting by preventing people from voting in their own party's primary is if a large number of people in the opposition party simulateously planned to change their own party affiliation. They could then infiltrate the opposition's primary, as it were, and all agree to vote for the biggest dufus they could, to assure he would lose in the general election. Seems pretty far-fetched.)
- Vicki
