It wasn’t so long ago that the shoe was on the other foot.
A few voters grumbled Friday about the recent Hamilton County primary election at a meeting of the Hamilton County Election Commission, complaining about election integrity and the possibility of crossover votes from Democrats helping Republican Weston Wamp win the GOP primary for county mayor.
No specific wrongdoing was alleged, and the auditor-in-charge recommended the May 3 election results be certified, which they were.
Wamp won the Republican primary by 318 votes out of 40,709 cast. Without more information, it’s difficult to make a definitive statement as to whether Democrat votes gave him his margin of victory.
Nevertheless, there are some who may believe it’s time to have closed primaries, where only voters registered as Republicans or Democrats may vote in their respective primaries.