Indiana doesn’t register by party, so I thought one could take whichever primary ballot one wished.

Not so.

There are byzantine rules to prohibit that, including scrutiny of your past primary ballots and your subjective intentions about voting in the upcoming general election. But there is no practical way to check those in real time on election day.

So the loser in Indiana’s nationally-famous 3-vote-margin State Senate race (*i.e., the MAGA challenger) is alleging 14 illegal crossover votes, and trying to take depositions of all of them as part of her “recount.” Some of them shot off their mouths on social media about crossing over; I can just about guaranty that no Democrats crossed over to vote for the loser.

But what’s so wrong about crossing over to assure that the less bad opponent wins the other tribe’s primary?

I reject the MAGA “solution” of registering by party. That would potentially disenfranchise me in primary elections, where I continue pulling Republican ballots partly to vote for the few remaining non-ideological positions (County Clerk, for instance) and for the lesser evils in other races.