Nader, 417 F.Supp. at 847). Furthermore, registering is a ‘“minimal demonstration by the voter that he has some commitment to the party in whose primary he wishes to participate.’ ” Id. (quoting Nader, 417 F.Supp. at 847). The Ziskis court recognized that “[i]f the independent voter ‘chooses not to associate, by not enrolling in a party, his right to vote in the general election is unaffected.’ ” Id. (quoting Nader, 417 F.Supp. at 847) (brackets omitted). In the end, the Ziskis court concluded, as did the Nader court, that “given the state’s interest in protecting the associational rights of party members and in preserving the integrity of the electoral process, the state may legitimately allow political parties to close their primaries to nonmembers.” Id.; Nader, 417 F.Supp. at 845 (<HOLDING>) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also
holding that the substitution of a party acts as a modification discharging the replaced party and substituting the new party with the same rights and liabilities recognizing the right of the state in protecting party members associational rights by legislating to protect the party from intrusion by those with adverse political principles holding that when a contract is signed by one party but not the other the manifestation of consent by the nonsigning party is sufficient to bind that party holding that the party prevailing on the significant issues in the litigation is the party that should be considered the prevailing party for attorneys fees holding that the court should look to the actions of the relevant party and determine whether that party fails to insist on its contractual rights or acts inconsistently with such rights