Aren't these the same people who were easily confused by simple voting machines. I feel changing the date will only confuse them further.

We've seen more and more over the years that States themselves no longer have any rights worth mentioning, vis-a-vis Central Government.

Is it any surprise that One of the Wings of The Central Government Party considers a State Party to have no rights to determine how it functions?

It's all part of the same obnoxious animal.

Even though I don't agree with moving any primary, the fact that a national party can control the actions of a state political party is scary and loathsome. This is an infringement of states rights and an intrusion into state politics.

Commenters here are ignoring the difference between the nomination process and a general election.

The process by which parties nominate a candidate is totally up to the parties themselves. The balance of power between state political party committees and the national committee has no relationship to the federal system. No one has some kind of "right" to a state-funded and state-run primary election; it's just one of the possible methods by which delegates to a national party convention may be chosen. Others are caucuses and conventions.