The Arkansas Democratic Party says a Republican bill to require partisan voter registration to participate in preferential primaries is just another Republican effort to discourage voting.

I’ll buy that, but not the idea that Republicans have a plot to enlist people to register Democratic and mess with the opposition’s primary. If that was the goal, the current system works fine. See D.C. Morrison.

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