What party are you registered with?

I was just wondering what our official makeup is.

I am not even registered but if I was it would be democratic.

Get yourself registered (Dem if you want to vote in the primary).

I would do it in a heartbeat if I could.

obviously. You didnt know I was too young? Well maybe I am putting myself down but maybe my grammar made you think I wasnt a citizen lol my grammar is notriously bad.

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if you register for a set party....how do you figure you have a secret ballot??

We have 'voter's list's' which just mean you are a resident and can vote...holy hell would break lose if you had to list which party!!

I can't believe you guys have to register a party choice!

You don't have to in every state. And it doesn't matter who you are registered with in some of the primaries. You can also change your affiliation in every state.

Some states do have "open primaries," though, in which you can vote in either party's primary. The problem with that is that sometimes members of one party will "raid" the other party's primary in order to force a weak nominee on them.

(Without starting a flamewar if we can avoid it.) I am worried that this could happen somewhere. Wingnuts voting for Dean to avoid Clark.

...your voting card will say "No Party"

I sometimes wished we had as many choices as you do in Canada. Political choices should not be limited to political parties or candidates with the most money. I wished we could have electoral reforms but that is ways off for now.


John

That's great. At least you are involved.

and I Vote mostly as a Democrate.

Libertarian economics are extremely anti-regulatory and anti-tax. Did you know that from the beginning and have a change of heart?

I am a libertarian leaning type of person, too. Welcome, mate! Character Assassin is a libertarian also if you haven't yet made his acquaintence. It's a lonely job, but someone's got to do it.

But of course I would be (D)

with the Party

registering with ANY party...violation of my privacy.

And what if I change my mind before the election?

The mere question would produce revolution in Canada!

does everyone just run at once?

a local candidate forward....you vote for the one you want in a national election.

You could choose them because of their party, or because of the person.

The party with the most candidates elected...wins. The leader of that party becomes PM.

I just googled these up. They would seem to contradict what you said.

http://www.pcparty.ca/doc/510/

https://www.liberal.ca/lpc/join.aspx?site=join
If that link doesn't work use this then one and click "join the party".
http://www.liberal.ca/lpc/default.aspx

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costs 10 bucks...deductible...to do so. Most people don't bother, unless they want to run for an office within the party.

You aren't required to do this in order to vote...would cause a revolt if it did...99.9% of Canadians aren't members of any party....just on the voter's list as a voter...that is, a Canadian eligible to vote. Resident, 18 or over, etc.

I was registered as a Democrat to vote in my first primary. In Wisconsin, they did not request that I designate a party when I registered at the polls on election day. When I voted in the Wisconsin primary last year, they had all the parties and candidates listed. It confused me a bit. The poll worker confirmed that I should only vote for candidates from one party. It was on a secret ballot so they do not know which parties candidates I selected. For this reason, I could switch every year depending upon who was up for office without it being recorded anywhere.
Being a fairly new Wisconsinite who has not gotten politically involved here after growing up in a politically active family in Ohio, can I register a party somewhere here? I have thought about becoming politically active in the future. Obviously I would not run for president as my first office, but I would want to avoid Clark's situation and declare my party.

I think there are several other states like that as well. You should have a choice for that.

If they ran this poll at freeperville, they'd seek out the non pukes and have them shot.

they like weapon systems and we like people." -Wesley Clark at the last debate.

You just choose what ballot you want when you go to the polls on Election Day. You are tracked however as to which ballot you choose. These lists are available to politician for the purpose of canvassing.
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So I'm not "registered" as anything. It's not even optional.

There is no party registration in IL. That's one reason many of us from IL found the whole Gen. Clark registration flap a bit laughable.

I'm an Anarchist, so I do not have to register as one....

I have 2 friends who are Anarchists and they don't vote. I won't flame you if that is your choice.

I have a friend who's an anarchist, too, but he always votes Democratic; I wonder if there's a subtext there... :P

That may have been the subtext. But just like there are "fake" Democrats :P there are "fake" Anarchists. But that may just be my need for the much maligned (by moderates of all stripes) "purity."

I tend to admire extremists.

I have voted for whatever left-winger was running.
I am not "fake" anything, I am what I am.

I was not implying you were fake. Since I don't know you there would be no way to know that, so I take your word for it that your not. But a voting Anarchist does remind of of the girl who recently tried to start the "Anarchy Club." It is sort of funny.

But I am not a "fake" anything.
As I said before, I rarely vote.
And yes, starting an "Anarchy Club" would be hilarious...

My own politics, ideally, tend toward the anarcho-syndicalist side of things (or "libertarian socialist", if you will), as do those of many of my friends. Our politics tend to resemble those of somebody like Chomsky, or Zinn, or (if you can remember back this far) COleman McCarthy. More like a non-marxist socialism with a little Tom Paine-style civil liberties thrown in for good measure :).

However, I still feel a compulsion to vote for those liberals/progressives that I believe to be working for the best interests of the people and causes I hold dear. The Democrats and the Democratic Party best fit that need currently, as we do live in a two-party state, for better or worse. As such, I vote in every election, oftentimes holding my nose for a "centrist" democrat if need be.

But, I have not seen that need to in quite a while...

What planet are you on??

If there has ever has been a time when your vote has been needed, it has been in 2000 and 2002.

What are you waiting for? Does Hitler need to come back for you to vote against him??

Well, he's baaaccckkk(in my best poltergeist voice) and the funny thing is, he looks just like GW Bush*

so if you want to vote in the closed primary, one has to declare party affiliation. The poll workers do check your voting record, and if one voted in the opposite's party primary before, one is likely to be challenged.

Cross voting in the other party's primary is discouraged by both parties, mainly because they always have competitive local races that they don't want skewed.

it is an open primary, actually. One can select either party's ballot - but one can only vote for one party's slate. While there is a republican and democratic clerk - there is only one poll book (not for two parties). There is nothing at the polls that indicate past party voting.

One does, in the poll book, have to record whether the voter takes a dem or repub ballot (so at the end of the day the number of each party ballots tallies up to the number of voters). That information, I believe, can be accessed by the parties after the election as a way of identifying likely party voters (for future soliciations and GOTV efforts.)

I worked as a clerk two primaries ago. Many people hadn't decided d or r ballot, until they were standing in front of me. There was nothing for me to check, had I wanted.

The only thing I could challenge (and there were rules to follow for that as well), was if there was reason to suspect that you no longer lived in the precinct in which you were voting. Even then you could still vote.

People confuse what "open primary" means. In many states it is predetermined whether you will get a dem or a republican ballot. That is closed. In open states - it is not predetermined, but determined by the voter at the polling place (time of voting). Have lived in both systems.

I would be very shocked if the voting requirements in Indy were so different than those in Bloomington.

and they can see, as you can, in which primary you voted going back several years.

They have separate voting machines, one for GOP, the other for Dems.

If you are challenged, you can always sign a piece of paper in which you promise to vote for the party's nominee.

there is a d and a r "judge" - who monitor the machines - but both machines take votes for each primary. Again - I know this from working the polls.

Again, the infor about the d and r ballot selection - may be accessed after the election by the parties. But it is not tracked or used at the precincts for voting.

That last comment is silly. Because anyone can take either ballot - they just declare at the polling place. There is no right to challenge a voter's selection. The only "challenge" has to do with a person's registration/address (if they are eligible at all to vote in that precinct, related to moving/residence in the timeline of the election).

If what you are describing is happening in Indy - document it. It is in violation and illegal.

...in a straight ticket sort of way.

If you want to vote in a primary, you just tell them which primary you want to vote in when you arrived.

don't have us specify party affiliation.

So it allows me to vote in any primary- just in case I have to sabotage the Repuke primary (and I have done it).

Registered Democrat, and have never voted for any opposition candidate. If any particular Democratic candidate is a bad egg, I'll just pass on voting for that office.

I was just curious because of your inclusion of the Liberal and Conservative parties in the list of options-- I didn't think either of them existed anywhere outside my home state. (And the Liberal party may cease to exist there as well, following Andrew Cuomo's withdrawal from the Democratic gubernatorial primary and subsequent failure to get enough votes on the Liberal line in the general election to keep that line on the ballot... not that I'd mourn their loss, since they recently have been more of a patronage machine than an ideologically coherent party, and I'm not too fond of Ray Harding.)

I am from NY.

but my heart lies further left

many of us live in states where there is no party registration (like Minnesota, in particular). Also, you may vote in any party's primary, but only one party. And you may register to vote on the day of the election at the polls. All you need is proof that you've lived at your address for a couple of months.

Also, we consistantly have one of the highest rates of voter turnout, and one of the lowest rates of voter fraud, too. :)

but I figured that there would be an ideological connection to a party, or independent would do. Independent isn't a party.

I think it would be awful to be a Republican and feel responsible for Bush and Cheney and Ashcroft, etc. Then again, being a Republican means you'd be proud of Bush and Cheney and Ashcroft. That's just too hard to imagine. I simply don't understand what drives people to be Republican. It took me four months in 2001 even to look at George's picture in the newspaper. I'm not much better at it now!

Everyone try's to win me over. :hi: Sorry ladies I'm in love and her name is Independence.

Although I do have affairs but always find my way back home to INDY.

:eyes: just as i suspected...

officialy registered as Democrats.

with the Working Families party in NY, I believe, but I have since switched my registration to the Democratic party.

in one choice? The two couldn't be more different. Is there a limit on poll questions?

There was a limit to 10. I figured that the turnout would be low and people can clarify at the bottom.

But I am not registered with the party. In the Michigan Democratic Caucus, I only have to state that I am a Dem in order to vote... i.e., I don't have to register as such.

Require one to declare their Party preference at time of voter Registration.
At the Primaries, one is allowed to cast a ballot in ONE primary only, and you let them know if you want the Dem or the Rep ballot. But you are not required to declare your Party.

Thus, several times, I have engaged in what is known as "party-raiding." If the Dem candidate is pretty well decided, then I have been known to take the Rep. ballot at Primary time, and vote for who I think will be the easiest to beat...or the one I could best live with if he should win...but I'm a loyal Democrat.

that would measure DLC vs DNC allegience.

I am not sure your everyday person has anything to do with the DLC. I could be wrong though.

to vote.

In SC, I have never had to give a party affliation when registering to vote.

Maybe you should add an option to your poll for those of us who do not have to affiliate with a party.

Didn't they have that in England a while back? I say we do it here. Can I get the party nomination for Prez?