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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Is The Left's Trump [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)95. No it does not! I posted the link to the VT SOS page.
Last edited Tue Jul 14, 2015, 04:31 PM - Edit history (1)
It says so plain as day and I quoted it.
Here is is AGAIN:
Here from the VT secretary of state:
https://www.sec.state.vt.us/elections/frequently-asked-questions/voter-registration.aspx#
8.
Do I have to register as a Democrat, Republican, Independent or some other party in Vermont?
No. There is no party registration in Vermont.
All registered voters can vote in the primary electionbut can only vote on one ballot. You will be given a ballot for each of the major parties. You mark one of the ballots and put the remaining unvoted ballots into a discard bin. Which ballot you chose to vote is private and not recorded (except during the presidential primary, where voters must publicly take one ballot or the other, and their choice is recorded on the entrance checklist).
8.
Do I have to register as a Democrat, Republican, Independent or some other party in Vermont?
No. There is no party registration in Vermont.
All registered voters can vote in the primary electionbut can only vote on one ballot. You will be given a ballot for each of the major parties. You mark one of the ballots and put the remaining unvoted ballots into a discard bin. Which ballot you chose to vote is private and not recorded (except during the presidential primary, where voters must publicly take one ballot or the other, and their choice is recorded on the entrance checklist).
The ballot proves just what I said it does, that when you run for office you declare what party you are running as, with the consent of the state party. That's on the SOS page as well.
Here is a link to the Vermont voter registration form. There is no place to choose party affilitation:
https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/33935/VTVoterApp.pdf
And your DU link - which you claimed earlier "debunked" this does no such thing. It's just the same thing you already posted, a pic of a ballot. I have explained to you why this doesn't prove your argument. In fact, you don't seem to have read any of the replies in the OP you linked to because people explained the same thing in there.
Honestly, since you refuse to deal with facts I cannot continue this conversation.
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+1 Actually I've heard the Bernie & Trump outlier theme for a week & a half.
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#11
You have at least four Bernie bashing threads this morning. He must be doing better than I thought.
Snotcicles
Jul 2015
#3
Good lord...weren't you one of those complaining about echo chambers/bubbles?
Sheepshank
Jul 2015
#54
SCOTUS isn't one issue..its ACA, marriage equality, abortion rights, voting rights etc.
Sheepshank
Jul 2015
#52
A 7-2 liberal SCOTUS can't be worth more trade deals and more U.S. troops in Mideast wars n/t.
Ken Burch
Jul 2015
#82
Please tell me one time a Democrat ever filibustered or offered meaningful resistance
vt_native
Jul 2015
#77
Don't care. Going to sit this one out after declaring myself out of the Democratic Party
Man of Distinction
Jul 2015
#42
I don't know about neo-liberals, but progressives want to see a Democrat in the White House.
DanTex
Jul 2015
#17
That's absolutely accurate--those Romney voters were in the minority last time around!
MADem
Jul 2015
#30
Yes, we do want to see a Democrat in the White House - and his name is Bernie Sanders
Man of Distinction
Jul 2015
#45
No. He's running as a Dem. Vermont doesn't have party registration for individuals.
cui bono
Jul 2015
#83
The Vermont Secretary of State says "there is NO party registration in Vermont".
cui bono
Jul 2015
#86
You posted a link of an old Vermont ballot. That has nothing to do with the Dem primary
cui bono
Jul 2015
#92
DU admins wasn't thinking that Bernie might be it when they wrote this specific clause..
Man of Distinction
Jul 2015
#48
I don't have a lot of regard for her work, and the Trump-Bernie outlier theme has been
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#18
Amen. Asinine post and the Trump-Bernie theme has been going around a week and a half.
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#19
when Trump wins republican primary, *Sen Sanders will slaughter him in the election.
Sunlei
Jul 2015
#25
If the media would cover the issues instead of the process or itself, it'd be a national awakening.
freshwest
Jul 2015
#26
I think the difference is that Bernie Sanders actually says things that normal people hope for.
MADem
Jul 2015
#28
"FCC regulations" .... really? Gee, and I thought, silly me, that it was the local franchising
MADem
Jul 2015
#61
Equating Sanders with Trump is inappropriate only so far as equaing Clinton with Bush.
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#46