Posted on 04/17/2016 6:56:29 PM PDT by markomalley
A survey has found that tens of thousands of voters, including Demi Moore and other celebrities, have mistakenly registered as members of a conservative minor political party in California in a mix-up over its name, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Los Angeles Times (http://bit.ly/23G88sX ) said that a telephone survey of 500 members of the American Independent Party found nearly 3 of 4 people did not realize they had enrolled in a political party that opposes abortion rights and same sex marriage and calls for building a fence along the U.S. border.
The newspaper said voters were confused by the use of the word "independent" in the party's name. In California, voters who do not want to register with any party must check a box on a registration form for "no party preference."
"I just blew it," Deborah Silva, 64, of Point Arena in Mendocino County, told the Times. "There were a number of choices. I just checked the box that said 'independent.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
What a PerverTED political system...
this isn’t news
i remember lots of people were confused by the AIP name back in the 1970’s when I was doing some voter registration
Similar problem in Massachusetts - http://www.wbur.org/2016/02/09/galvin-mass-voter-registration-primary
Not a cruz fan but but puh leeze
This one is not connected to cruz
Probably predates his interest in ca politics by a longshot
I am a Trump supporter. You need to know that in California, only registered Republicans can vote for candidates running on the Republican ticket for NATIONAL office. So, no voter who is registered as an Independent can vote for either Trump or Cruz.
Several years ago, California passed an open primary law in which all candidates running for local and statewide positions would be listed on one primary ballot. The top two vote getters regardless of party would then run in the general election, even if they were from the same party. This is a horrible system but was upheld by the courts in CA. The only exception is for national offices as the state has no control over them.
The American Independent Party (AIP) is a far right political party of the United States that was established in 1967 by Bill Shearer and his wife, Eileen Knowland Shearer, a cousin of the late Republican U. S. Senator William F. Knowland of California.
Why are whining before looking for facts. The party was crated before Cruz was born. If Trump loses California it will because he didn’t bother to learn California election code written be he ever thought about running for president.
meh
One could have simply pointed out that some folks are stupid. California doesn’t have an open primary you have to be registered in the party you plan on voting for in the primary
I guess that's not the case any more Mr. O'Malley.
If that's your real name, you're a disgrace to the Irish as well.
Millions in CA have been totally disenfranchised by epic government corruption not to mention government undermined and compromised the vote by turning CA into flophouse for millions who entered illegally.
I understand they ran out of registration forms for those registering for the Republican party. They’ve had to print more...
I can’t imagine why...lol
Make sure to have them vote in the GOP primary—obviously for Trump. Get those damn satanic bastards out of our party
In MA we are called Unenrolled to avoid problems like this.
.
ha!
well, when registering new voters it would, of course, be totally improper to trick or mislead them into joining any political party other than the one they want
i quit going out on registration drives when we discovered we were signing up far more new voters for the other major party than for our own
Alas:
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
(The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!)” .... Robert Burns (To a Mouse, 1785)
Huh? What are you talking about?
Why are you snarking at markomalley?
Did you read—or comprehend—what he posted?
Demi Moore, et al signed up for the party that in the past has famously fielded George Wallace and Lester Maddox for President. Hilarious!
Trump is against abortion. Your information should say that Hillary is the abortionist.
First time voters?
I even read the article in the LA Times. It was the only good news to be had. Knowing that a bunch of low-information liberals are accidentally signing up with a true, rightwing, patriotic party is hilarious.
The current party leader thought about changing the name a while ago, but decided not to because he didn't want to have to go through the expense of getting a sufficient number of members in order to retain ballot access for the party. He's honest enough with himself to know that there aren't a lot of Californians left that agree with the Constitution.
The really stupid thing about O'Malley's comment is that the AIP was actually trying to put Trump up as their candidate but the Sec of State wouldn't allow it. So AIP is actually on Trump's side rather than Cruz's side. If O'Malley spent even five minutes investigating he would have found this out and would be hailing the AIP as his friends.
Hanging chads ... butterfly ballots .... I wuz robbed!
In re-reading your comments #9 and 18, I now realize you were responding to comment #1, not the story itself.
And in comment #1, markomalley apparently forgot to affix his /s tag.
My apologies for jumping on you, wwfb.
Mark, no /s tag? Tsk tsk!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.