In some places, you can only vote for candidates in your own party - for the primary.
How else do we identify the voting habits of all those dead people in the cemetaries across the US that we get to vote every year??
Primary election
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election
You register for the party from whom you want to get annoying phone calls asking for money.
So, you don’t CARE who wins in the PRIMARIES?!?!?!?
So in Canada you have no choice in who will represent your views within the party? Hard to believe!
You register with a certain party to select local candidates in the primaries. For instance, in MD most local officials were Democrats. To replace someone you had to select another Demacrat candidate. if a Republican was never elected, and you were a Republican, you always lost your vote because the person that you voted for was never elected. Hope this helps you a little.
Party selections of candidates in the primaries.
It doesn’t matter here in the States, this pinhead in the Oval Orifice, and Hillary both bus in their own cheering sections. They have to because nobody cast a legitimate vote for them to begin with. It’s all voter fraud down here.
I guess the simple answer is depending upon the rules/regulations of your
state you may have to be a member of the party in which you wish to help select the
candidates for the general election. There are open, closed, and some variations
amongst the 50 states.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primary-types.aspx
That’s interesting! How much does it cost to buy a membership? Is it yearly? Do all parties cost the same and what does your money buy for you? I’d never heard of this before your post. Thanks!
Primaries and abuse of your phone.
The RINOs have already decided to crush the Tea Party, so unless Cruz or Sarah get behind an independent challenge, it’s pretty much over. The American experiment down the crapper.
So when it comes to death panels or IRS targeting its easier to select your targets if you register with a party.
No party registration in Texas. However, they do keep track of which party’s primary you voted in.
The parties should be able to choose their own candidates.
In California, the democrats could cross over and choose many of the republicans.
While there is a public list of who voted in which primary, I never have to answer the question of party affiliation. The lesser evil always gets my vote.
Intelligent observation that runs afoul of institutionalized stupidity. The Dominion, on a Parliamentary system, is more prone to regular maintenance of party discipline. Here party fundraising makes political affiliation somewhat of moment amidst the peculiarities of the American system.
The American dyarchy allows for occasional 3rd party acting out as with Bull Moose TR, surface ripples that mark seismic rumblings between big power interests like the houses of Morgan & Rockefeller. (Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html )
Generally the big power interests keep a firm grip on governmental influence. Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton’s favorite Georgetown Professor, reported in Tragedy & Hope that the House of Morgan ran both parties’ candidates in two elections, though separated by 40 years.
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THE whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have the two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called balance or mutual check, in our Constitution. — G.K. Chesterton: ‘The Blunders of Our Parties,’ Illustrated London News, April 19, 1924
It matters for primaries. Republicans decide the Republican nomination, Democrats the Democrat nomination (in most places — there are some “open primary” states.) In the general election it matters not at all. (Unless you’re a poll watcher — most states require that there be at least one Republican and one Democrat poll watcher at a polling place.)
I’m registered as Non-affiliated in my state’s voting system which means I’m an Independent. There’s no particular party with that name in my state of PA so there’s no official Independent candidate in the Primary elections so I can’t vote during the primaries unless there’s a question on the ballet, such as Do you vote to institute a sales tax increase to fund the Emergency Medical Service - then I can vote for that initiative and nothing else. You have to register as something in order to vote in the General Elections held in the fall, when I can vote for anyone on the ballot or even write in a name.