That is an absolutely incorrect statement and if there is any evidence such changes occurred, it should be reported to the authorities ASAP.
And who will look into this? RINO Crist?
The answer suggested is that independents registered properly as Republicans more than 29 days before the primary solely for the purpose of voting in the Republican primary. The problem with this theory is that that involves a huge number of non-Republicans deciding more than a month in advance of the primary that they wanted to vote in the Republican primary and taking the trouble to go into their polling place and change their registration to Republican. And presumably now they are going to have to take an extra trip back to their poling place to change their registration back to Independent. Why would such a huge humber of people — 17 percent of the voters in the primary — have that kind of motivation?
The poster, "NonValueAdded," suggests that this was a Democratic plot. Since the Democratic voters' votes would mean nothing in the Democratic primary (because the National Democratic Committee had punished Florida for moving its primary by taking away their convention votes), the Democrats decided to use their votes to vote for the most liberal Republican candidate. But the exit poll, as I remember, did not say anything about Democrats voting in the Republican primary. It only mentioned "unaffiliated" people voting in the Republican primary. And in any case, the Democratic cross-over theory would not explain the 17 percent Independent figure. The theory might explain a huge Democratic cross-over to the Republican primary; it would not explain a huge Independent cross-over to the Republican primary.
The whole thing remains a mystery. The media's failure to explain this obvious huge anomaly of Independents voting in the "closed" Republican primary is also a mystery. None of these media people with their six figure salaries notice the most obvious questions crying out to be answered.