In case you got to watching Tuesday's presidential primary results and started wondering if it's too late for Vermonters to register to vote in the March 4 primary, we're here for you.

It's not too late. The deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 27.

Which is a lot more welcoming than the deadline New Yorkers faced for Tuesday's primary. Because it's a closed primary in New York (you have to register with a particular party to vote in that party's primary) and because you have to prove your allegiance to a party by having been in it before the last election, the deadline to register for the N.Y. primary was last October.

We, of course, don't have that party registration nonsense here in Vermont. You register to vote, you show up at the polls and you cast a ballot from one party or another.

- Terri Hallenbeck