In CA the Rep primary is closed to anybody registered other than R. It would be easy to change somebody’s resgistration by just sending in a new reg form making them a Decline-to-State or Ind.
The big problem, if you’re trying to play dirty tricks, is identifying which Reps to change. If you do it randomly the percentages for each candidate should stay about the same. If you’re working in favor of candidate “A”, how do you figure out who’s going to vote for candidate “B”?
“The big problem, if you’re trying to play dirty tricks, is identifying which Reps to change.”
You do it in a district that was heavily favored towards your opposition candidate, in this case, Romney was heavily favored.
opensecrets.com? Find out who donated to whom? But that would be discoverable by the nonexistent FEC.
Look up campaign donors on line. That’s how they may have done it if they did it.