In Florida, you can’t vote in a presidential preference primary unless you are registered with a political party.
Local party leaders urge people to register as a Republican or Democrat before Feb. 16, the deadline to vote March 15 in one of those two primaries.
More than 3 million Florida voters are registered with either no party affiliation or with a minor party, according to Czonstka, and in Okaloosa County as of Jan. 28, there are 28,231 out of 124,642 active registered voters registered as neither Republican nor Democrat.
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This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Deadline to register for presidential primary looms