At Least 140,000 Voters Have Left The Republican Par...

I was a registered republican once

(for about 4 minutes)

I have to look at the options. The third one is independent right? I don't want to be labeled a Democrat or a Republican. I don't always vote straight Democrat.

The main function of registering to a party (specifically dem or rep) is being allowed to vote in the primary elections. This of course varies state to state.

𝕄𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕪 : nothing says you always have to vote for the party you are registered to. you might want to see how primaries work in your state before you choose- independent may lock you out of voting in the primary

different jurisdictions have different rules, some requiring registration ahead of time.

potato boyo : basically jinx

When I lived in NH I was independent. on primary day you walked into the building, registered to one party or the other, voted in the primary of that party, and then un-registered on your way out the door.

Allegory : I will never pay!!

So, Oregon had an Independent party and people thought they were registering as nonaligned, but really registered as Independent. If you want to be nonaligned, be sure you are really choosing it and not some party that appears to be nonaligned.

yeah, nh changed it to undecided or something and that always annoyed me. I don't think "independent" should be a valid party name.

However, your registration as nonaligned merely keeps you from influencing primary elections. It does not stop the mail or phone calls. Depending on how much money a campaign sinks into data management, your voter file is merged with magazine subscription records, grassroots organizational memberships and donations, and sometimes commercial data profiles

reminds me of the whole "Anarchists have a group?"

For example, when we were doing voter outreach, we were part of a multi-organizational collective of enviro, gay rights, labor, consumer rights, immigrant rights, abortion rights, and other leftie groups. We put all our members together than matched them with voters and decided which org would lead voter contacts with people

Our DB also included subscribers to left to center left magazines. This was about deciding which group did the phone calls for Voter ID, persuasion, and GOTV. Who sent mailers, who didn't contact, etc.

And this was low-budget data management, nothing like what big campaigns had.

I just think it's funny that one of the people who got arrested was that WalkAway guy (the one who is trying to get LGBT people and POC to leave the Democrats)

So being non-aligned won't fool campaigns. They will know who their voters are.

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