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"California Poll Trainers Instructed to Give Provisional Ballots to No Party Preference Voters-Demand Crossover Ballot!" (Original Post)
Baobab
May 2016
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enlightenment
(8,830 posts)1. Gads.
According to the CA Secy of State website, NPP voters need to ask for a Democratic ballot. "Crossover" is apparently a term used by the poll workers, but shouldn't be necessary for the voter - I think the more important word is "Democratic" ballot.
No Party Preference Information
Voting in Presidential Primary Elections
Voters who registered to vote without stating a political party preference are known as No Party Preference (NPP) voters. NPP voters were formerly known as "decline-to-state" or DTS voters.
For presidential elections: NPP voters, unless they choose otherwise (see below), will receive a non-partisan ballot that does not include presidential candidates. A nonpartisan ballot contains only the names of candidates for voter-nominated offices and local nonpartisan offices and measures.
Voting in the June 7, 2016, Presidential Primary Election
An NPP voter will receive a non-partisan ballot, which will have no presidential candidates listed.
However, upon request, an NPP voter can instead vote the presidential ballot of the following parties:
American Independent Party
Democratic Party
Libertarian Party
Why? Each political party has the option of allowing NPP voters to vote in their presidential primary election. 135 days before the election, political parties must notify the Secretary of State's office whether or not they will allow NPP voters to vote in their presidential primary election. The above three parties notified the Secretary of State that they will allow NPP voters to request their partys presidential ballot for the June 7, 2016, Presidential Primary Election.
How to request a party ballot? The NPP voter may ask their county elections office or poll worker, at their polling place, for a ballot for one of the above three parties. An NPP voter may not request more than one party's ballot.
A vote-by-mail voter is who is also an NPP voter may contact their county elections office or complete and mail a vote-by-mail ballot application to their county elections office. The vote-by-mail ballot application must arrive by May 31, 2016.
The following three parties notified the Secretary of State that they have chosen not to allow NPP voters to request their partys presidential ballot participate in their presidential primary election:
Republican
Green
Peace & Freedom
If an NPP voter wants to vote for a presidential candidate in the Republican, Green, or Peace and Freedom party, the NPP voter must re-register to vote with one of those parties by May 23, 2016.
Voting in Presidential Primary Elections
Voters who registered to vote without stating a political party preference are known as No Party Preference (NPP) voters. NPP voters were formerly known as "decline-to-state" or DTS voters.
For presidential elections: NPP voters, unless they choose otherwise (see below), will receive a non-partisan ballot that does not include presidential candidates. A nonpartisan ballot contains only the names of candidates for voter-nominated offices and local nonpartisan offices and measures.
Voting in the June 7, 2016, Presidential Primary Election
An NPP voter will receive a non-partisan ballot, which will have no presidential candidates listed.
However, upon request, an NPP voter can instead vote the presidential ballot of the following parties:
American Independent Party
Democratic Party
Libertarian Party
Why? Each political party has the option of allowing NPP voters to vote in their presidential primary election. 135 days before the election, political parties must notify the Secretary of State's office whether or not they will allow NPP voters to vote in their presidential primary election. The above three parties notified the Secretary of State that they will allow NPP voters to request their partys presidential ballot for the June 7, 2016, Presidential Primary Election.
How to request a party ballot? The NPP voter may ask their county elections office or poll worker, at their polling place, for a ballot for one of the above three parties. An NPP voter may not request more than one party's ballot.
A vote-by-mail voter is who is also an NPP voter may contact their county elections office or complete and mail a vote-by-mail ballot application to their county elections office. The vote-by-mail ballot application must arrive by May 31, 2016.
The following three parties notified the Secretary of State that they have chosen not to allow NPP voters to request their partys presidential ballot participate in their presidential primary election:
Republican
Green
Peace & Freedom
If an NPP voter wants to vote for a presidential candidate in the Republican, Green, or Peace and Freedom party, the NPP voter must re-register to vote with one of those parties by May 23, 2016.
I hope that the Elections office in CA takes a more vigorous approach (or that the woman who filmed that video calls the person who did the training and corrects them) to correcting the record on this. If it is being done at other training sessions, it will - at least - slow down the process of voting and create considerable confusion.
Perhaps some CA Bernie folks should make signs and stand (however far away they need to be) outside - "NPP voters: ask for a DEMOCRATIC BALLOT - don't accept a provisional" or something.
JudyM
(29,204 posts)3. Good info, thanks for posting.
thereismore
(13,326 posts)2. This is important. Ask for a Democratic ballot. nt