CAlifornia Computer Glitch wipes out PArty Preference

[booley]

If you live in California, might to check to make sure nothing has changed for you.

In a press release sent out by the Contra Costa County Elections Division Tuesday, voters were cautioned that during the 2018 roll-out of the automatic voter registration system, "some voters' party preference was overwritten." As such, individuals who registered with a party may have been swapped to "no party preference."

As of April 2018, any California resident — unless they opt out — is automatically registered to vote when they register a car or get a license from the Department of Motor Vehicles.


Being listed as "no party preference" means would-be Democratic voters could have issues voting in the upcoming Democratic Presidential Primary scheduled for March 3, 2020. Although "no party preference" voters are allowed to vote in Democratic primaries in California, a vote-by-mail ballot must be specially requested from the voter's county elections office.

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[stopwastingmymoney]

1. We have open primaries in Ca

Everyone gets the same ballot regardless of party affiliation

[Fresh_Start]

3. wrong, republican primary is not open

democratic primary is not open to republicans

[brooklynite]

4. You're talking about the non-Presidential Primaries...

[still_one]

9. Not if they are registered as republicans, but all they have to do is re-register as NPP, and then

request a Democratic ballot

Of course they can also reregister as a Democrat also to get a Democratic ballot

California is known as a partially Open primary state

[still_one]

11. That is true That happened around 2000

[still_one]

2. If you are registered NPP you can request a Democratic ballot. If you vote by mail it should

be quite obvious how to do it, and if you vote at the polls you request the ballot

[Iggo]

5. Yep.

I've been No Party Preference for as long as I can remember.

When I vote, they ask me which ballot I want, and in a very loud voice I say "Democratic."

I've never voted by mail, so I don't know if there are hoops a No Party Preference voter has to jump through to vote by mail in the primary.

[still_one]

8. No there are not any hoops, and in the voter pamphlet for the vote by mail they make it clear

how to do it.

but one does have to read the voter pamphlet to see how to request a specific Democratic ballot

California goes out of their way to insure that anyone who wants to vote can

[Iggo]

12. Good to hear.

Like I said, I've never voted by mail.

I've never wanted to.

I really enjoy voting in person.

[still_one]

13. A lot of people feel as you do

[honest.abe]

7. Hard to believe they don't have database backup to restore that data.

Odd.