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For clarification: Indiana voters and candidates do not “register” as a party member. Voters choose their party in primary elections. That defines their party choice until the next primary. Primary voters can also choose to vote only on non-partisan (referendum) issue sin a primary, if such a choice is available.
The legal hurdles John Rust faces brings to light the lengths to which the Indiana Republican Party will go to in keeping a tight grip on its statewide power. With its super majority in the state legislature, what the Republican powers want the Republican powers get. It is anathema to the party to let voters have a say in who ought to be its nominee. When a party incumbent dies or resigns, the party’s central committee picks the preferred placement. When a registered Republican wants to run for the Senate, the party imposes a law that the candidate must have voted in the two prior primaries to be on the ballot. To say the Indianapolis Republican Party is akin to the Politburo in the Kremlin is an understatement. Like the Politburo, Indiana Republicans fear losing their grip on their power.
Indiana’s Republican Party is completely broken, has been for more than a decade. As a former life long Republican, like many I look at these supposed Republicans with great suspicion on about everything they do these days. It’s a dark era of time in Indiana politics, and only new blood will fix these issues over the next ten or more years.