Posted on 04/19/2016 9:49:07 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
In June 2013, North Carolina passed the most sweeping voting restrictions in the country, requiring strict voter ID, cutting early voting and eliminating same-day registration, pre-registration for 16 and 17-year-olds, and out-of-precinct voting, among other political reforms. The state defended its cutbacks in court last summer by invoking, of all places, New York.
“The state of New York has no early voting as opposed to North Carolina that has ten days of early voting,” lawyer Thomas Farr said. “The state of New York has no same-day registration. The state of New York has no out-of-precinct voting. The state of New York has no preregistration.”
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New York has no early voting (unlike 37 states), no Election Day registration (the state constitution requires voters to register no later than 10 days before an election), and excuse-only absentee balloting (voters have to prove they’ll be out of town or have a disability.)
The voter-registration deadline for the April 19 primary closed 25 days beforehand, when no candidate had even campaigned in New York, and independent or unaffiliated voters had to change their party registrations by October 9, 193 days before April 19, to vote in the closed Democratic or Republican primaries. This will disenfranchise nearly 30 percent of New Yorkers, including, most famously, the Trump children, who didn’t change their registrations from independent to Republican in time.
It’s easy to poke fun at the ignorance of Trump’s kids, but 3 million registered New Yorkers won’t be able to vote in the state’s primary because they are not affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties. Election Day voter registration, which also increases voter turnout by up to 10 percent, would solve this problem.
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It’s really the only way to slow down the democrats in NY. Hell, dead ones still vote in NY. So have to slow the cheaters down somehow....
I’m with ya.
My understanding is that it is the parties who make the rules for primaries not the states but that to facilitate the primary voting the states let the parties use their voting machines. Is there a law in NY that says a party must hold a primary to be on the ballot? I think not.
Bingo. Better said than what I had planned.
It sucks to be a LIV.
I have found articles saying both....
Not sure..
http://gawker.com/donald-trumps-lawyer-wont-be-voting-for-him-in-the-new-1771107646
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-whining-donald-trump-failed-to-learn-the-rules-of-the-political-game-20160418-story.html
Liberals and the Media (but I repeat myself) are lobbying for the direct election of the President, including every step along the way: primaries, conventions, etc. If you wonder why, don’t bother. Doing so is to their advantage and they want the American people to blindly follow their lead into the voting booth and elect more corrupt free stuff politicians who will then have plenty of power and no accountability.
If you missed it PING. Did most polls of NY use ONLY pollees from county R databases? What are poll workers doing with non-R-registered voters who want to vote Trump or Cruz?
These registration rules have been in place in NY for a long time. Only the cut off date for changing party reg is somewhat magical and moves about a bit. A few weeks here, a few weeks there, but usually not more than a month.
However the new thing, a thing I didn’t hear a peep about until it hit the papers after the fact, was that in NY - a few months after Trump announced - The Party Leaders got together and decided to CHANGE how the delegates are selected. For the first time in many decades, the candidates are no longer allowed to select their own delegates. Now, The Party Leaders get to pick who they think are likely to be loyal to The Party.
Funny ain’t it? All behind closed doors, and benefits The Party. It likely was set to benefit Bush, originally. You had to be an insider to know that this was even planned. I am betting 90% of NY republicans have no idea about this, and BOY ARE THEY GONNA GET PISSED.
During the Trump family town hall on CNN, Eric and Ivanka said they were registered Independents. Eric added that he votes Republican, but Ivanka said that she’s a true Independent, who votes for the person and not the party. Trump’s other two adult children, Don and Tiffany, both said that they were registered Republicans.
I don’t see how requiring them to be registered before the election, or not being able to vote early keeps them from voting. It makes it a bit more difficult for dems to truck the nursing home people and the insane from the hospitals, due to the time constraints, however.
It’s strange that both same day registration and no early voting are both bad. Kinda hard to combine the two.
Well, I did not know that about changing the delegate selection process.
The person not the party= two-time Obama voter. Just can’t say so since Bill talked Don into running under the R banner.
I think if you don’t pay enough attention to politics to keep your registration current, then you probably aren’t informed enough to vote.
No/Low information voters is how we ended up with Obama
Unaffiliated voters should not be voting in party primaries, unless willing to declare for that party. Nobody’s been disenfranchised; they simply made a choice without considering all the ramifications.
The polling place I work is in a church ground level basement. A few years ago a picture of Jesus with little children was painted by the entry door. I still expect some offended progressive to complain about it, any election now.
Know thy enemy.
Telling them no dice, no doubt, though Pubbie workers might mention that there's always the general election, the one that really matters.
They also have the option to write in either on the RAT side.
I think New York is right to abolish early voting.
Too many people do it and then change their minds. I see nothing wrong with the system they’ve established; it didn’t disenfranchise anyone who was interested in voting.
If it disenfranchised the stupid... well that’s a good thing.
I’m hoping Trump over-polled as usual and won’t do as well as he expects.
The American flag is hung over the Hawaiian flag here.
Oddly enough, there is no Mexican flag.
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