On August 17, the Oregon Secretary of State released a new voter registration tally, which shows that the Independent Party, for the first time, has enough registered members to qualify for a primary. It needed 5% at that tally and just barely made it. See this announcement from the Secretary of State.
The party has been ballot-qualified since 2007, but, like Oregon’s other parties (other than the Democratic and Republican Parties) has been nominating by convention.
Ironically, the Independent Party will now have a much more difficult time cross-endorsing the nominees of other parties. Parties that nominate by convention are free to nominate anyone who is a nominee of another party. But it is very difficult for two parties that each nominate by primary to nominate each other’s nominees. No one get can on an Oregon primary ballot unless he or she is a registered member of that party. However, Oregon allows write-ins in primaries, so fusion between such parties is not completely banned.
The Independent Party was formed by Oregon voters who wanted to make it easier for independent candidates to get on the general election ballot.
There’s something magical about that “Independent” label.
I suspect the Independent Party of Washington will have 200,000 members by the time of the General Election of 2016.
Keep’em going, fellow Independents of Washington State.
My question is why that is the case in Oregon? How would that
effect those supporters of the State of Jefferson in Oregon?
I understand in California it only effects persons running
for County Central Committee of the American Independent
Party? How would it be for Presidential Electors in California
in 2016 that after being picked by the Cal. GOP, become a recovering Republican without taking any steps and become an
Presidential Elector of the AIP?
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Chairman,
American Independent Party of California
Once approval has been obtained, circulators must gather signatures equal to at least 1 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for presidential electors in the most recent general election within the electoral district for which the nomination is being sought. The Oregon Secretary of State does not calculate in advance the number of signatures required for each office.
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