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4Justice

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14. NPP (no party preference registration) in CA
Mon May 11, 2015, 01:30 PM
May 2015

For CA...in the last Presidential primary.....the Democratic party allowed NPP designated voters (No party preference) to "request" a Democratic primary ballot. The individual parties have the option to allow or disallow any of the parties registrants or NPP registrants to choose to vote on their ballot. There is a deadline...usually sometime in March for the Dem/Rep?Green?Libertarian...etc. to file a letter with the Secretary of State in Sacramento indicating their wishes. The Rep. Party in CA did not allow anyone other than registered Republicans to vote on their ballot in the Primary.

I know of some third party people that are adverse to registering as a Dem in order to vote for Bernie...so it is relatively "safe" for those folks to register as NPP and check and see if the Dem Party of CA is allowing NPPs to request the Dem ballot (you MUST request the Dem ballot, otherwise only NPP Presidential Primary candidates will appear on your ballot). This way one would not "feel"compromised in order to help Bernie win the Primary!

Go Bernie!!!!

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Any information is a plus. daleanime May 2015 #1
K&R! Terrific and useful information! Rhiannon12866 May 2015 #2
Perfect, just what we need to spread around BrotherIvan May 2015 #3
Thank you, TM99! Enthusiast May 2015 #4
Here's more info from Ballotpedia. Seems 12 states have closed primaries. madfloridian May 2015 #5
I was just going to post that link, but I see you found it. sabrina 1 May 2015 #6
Mississippi requirement...unusual. madfloridian May 2015 #7
You must have forgotten the McDaniel vs Cochran Senate primary hilarity last year... Splatterpunk Jun 2015 #19
I don't remember it. madfloridian Jun 2015 #20
Yeah.. look upthread one more time.. Splatterpunk Jun 2015 #21
Don't see a wiki link. madfloridian Jun 2015 #22
Here Splatterpunk Jun 2015 #23
We need a massive voter registration drive especially in states with JDPriestly May 2015 #8
Yes, that is true. People may not realize eg, that in a lot of states they sabrina 1 May 2015 #9
NPP (no party preference registration) in CA 4Justice May 2015 #14
Thanks. JDPriestly May 2015 #15
thanks, the person that talked to our country did not relay the part about requesting a dem ballot! fed-up Jul 2015 #32
AFAIK, Texas is still open but you MUST declare to caucus - TBF May 2015 #10
Are you sure this is this accurate? left-of-center2012 May 2015 #11
Make sure your name hasn't been purged marym625 May 2015 #12
CA NPP status 4Justice May 2015 #13
Interesting information, thanks for posting! Rhiannon12866 May 2015 #16
Hawaii salimbag May 2015 #17
Nevada is still a closed primary state. enlightenment May 2015 #18
And don't forget to caucus if your state has a caucus... Kalidurga Jun 2015 #24
Right! 13 states caucus for presidential nominees... ReallyIAmAnOptimist Jun 2015 #29
link: how & when to vote for Bernie (by state) hopemountain Jun 2015 #25
Thanks for that link. TM99 Jun 2015 #26
hmmm. thank you for pointing out this fact hopemountain Jun 2015 #27
No, don't remove the link. TM99 Jun 2015 #28
voteforbernie.org Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2015 #30
Thanks for the info floyd1 Jul 2015 #31
closed primaries lsufan59 Aug 2015 #33
Rock the Vote...Voter Registration Tools SoapBox Aug 2015 #34
NYers-great website to help change registration artislife Sep 2015 #35
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