In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans
over election procedures like
voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.
One expert testified, for example, that in Washington the number of
voters crossing
over from one party to another can rise to as high as 25 percent,
id., at 511, and another that only 25 to 33 percent of all Washington
voters limit themselves to candidates of one party throughout the ballot, App.