Today in Coral Springs, Florida, David Nirenberg arrived to vote as an independent. Nevertheless, he said that poll workers demanded he choose a party. Independents cannot vote in the Presidential primary but are able to weigh in on a controversial property tax amendment that shares the ballot.
According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nirenberg was incorrectly forced to pick a party by the poll works. And so at the last minute he wound up deciding to vote for John McCain…
“He said to me, ‘Are you Democrat or Republican?’ I said, ‘Neither, I am independent.’ He said, ‘Well, you have to pick one,”’ Nirenberg said.
In Florida, only those who declare a party are allowed to cast a vote in that party’s presidential primary. Nirenberg said he tried to explain to the poll worker that he should not vote on a party ballot because of his “no party affiliation” status.
Nirenberg said a second poll worker was called over who agreed that independents should not use party ballots, but said they had received instructions to the contrary.
“He said, ‘Ya know, that is kind of funny, but it was what we were told.’ … I was shocked when they told me that.” Nirenberg said he went ahead and voted for John McCain.
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