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Virginia’s first-ever presidential primary, scheduled to coincide with 13 other Southern primaries and caucuses on March 8, is an entirely different situation for members of the two major political parties.
Because of the way the primary is structured, each voter may request either a Republican or Democratic ballot, but not both. The voter does not have to express a party affiliation in order to obtain a ballot, nor does that choice, or the vote cast in the primary, obligate the voter in any way in the November general election.
However, political observers have predicted that the traditional independence of Virginia voters and elected officials may express itself in a low turnout because of the requirement of choosing a party ballot, which many may see as a de facto expression of party preference.
For Democrats, binding choices
For Democrats, the vote is a binding preference poll, which will allocate 75 of the state’s 85 delegates to the national convention later in the summer.
According to county Democratic chairman Lee Bird, each candidate will be assigned representatives in the county’s delegation to the district convention. The number each candidate receives will be proportional to the percentage of the vote each got within the county, or statewide, on March 8. Any candidate receiving less than 15 percent will get no delegates.
Rappahannock’s delegat ion. along with groups from each county’s Democratic committee, ■* ill
72.7%