Question for voter/pollworker from CA 50th Congressional District

Were there separate ballot styles for the different parties' primaries? In other words, would a voter registered in the Democratic party be given a ballot that only had the Democratic candidates for the primary races, or would they be given a ballot that included candidates from other parties, for whom they could not legally vote?

The answer looks like it should be obvious, but I just want to verify. Thanks.

where they were using the same type of ballot and yes, each party had a different ballot.
In Alameda there were 11 ballot types (in three languages so technically 33)
One for each of the qualified parties in the county - Dem, Rep, AIP, Peace & Freedom, Green, Libertarian, and Natural Law
plus a Non-Partisan ballot (only non partisan races)

additionally three parties (Dem, Rep, and AIP) allowed Non-partisan regustrant to vote in their primaries. the ballots used were nearly identical to the regular D, R and A ballots except that they didn't include central committee elections.

I suspect it was a similar arrangment in San Diego.

I was a poll worker -- as was said we had 8 ballots: 7 parties and 1 non-partisan. The ballots were new this time -- no security sleeve. They were each color coded to match their corresponding machines. The ballots themselves were exactly the same except for color it was the machines that you inserted them into that were different (i.e allowed you to ink-a-dot only your party's dots). each party had their own 'machine' but the parties other than Dem and Rep had to share booths -- we only had 4 plus a handicapped.

Our election was even more complicated since, after voting in the primary, they had too go vote in the city election -- do the same process all over again ( check name, confirm address, etc ) but of course there were no party ballots since it was a general election.

a Democrat, Republican, or Independent ballot which would be different from the ballots that registered Dems, Reps, and Inds got: if you weren't registered, you couldn't vote in that party's "central committee" elections so those weren't on the ballots the "Decline to State" folks got. (Parties decided whether folks must register to vote in their primaries, the Greens and Libertarians, for example, won't allow "Decline to State" folks to vote in their primaries).

I worked the polls in my county. Things were almost the same here, except that independent and "decline to state" voters got to choose to vote only in nonpartisan races or could choose one of *three* primaries to vote in: Dem, Rep and American Independent Party.

Was the AIP really not on your list of primqaries ind/DTS voters could vote in?

I believe I said the same thing as you said.

"independent" or "American Independent Party." They mean two different things. That's why I asked. Thanks for answering.

https://ovr.ss.ca.gov/votereg/OnlineVoterReg

(Not trying to argue - maybe some refer to "Decline to state" as "Independent" but that's a bit confusing, given the AIP exists.

These are the options:
American Independent Party
Democratic Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
Natural Law Party
Peace & Freedom Party
Republican Party
I Decline to State A Political Party

and then there's "other" where you have to specify what you are registering as. It seems an open-ended option.

POLITICAL PARTY:Ensure you have selected a qualified political party, or "I Decline to State a Political Party" or "Other". If you mark "Other," you may print the name of an unqualified political party. No person shall be entitled to vote the ballot of any political party unless he or she has registered with that party. However, if a voter has declined to state a political party affiliation, and the political party permits it, the unaffiliated voter may vote in the party's primary election.