Colorado

your precinct and county leaders can't ID you as a Democrat.

Texas has open registration so we are free to choose either primary. People from both parties vote in the other party's primaries because they think they can make a difference. In a state as large as this one, there are never enough of those votes to swing an election.

Since we do not register by party, we don't have a list of known Democrats. Instead, precinct chairs and county party officials have to play detective to find loyal Democrats! There are a number of dyed in the wool Democrats in my precinct who do not show up on database searches because they never vote in primaries. County and precinct volunteers are constantly trying to find solid Democratic voters who can help get out the vote at election time.