On October 16, the American Independent Party notified the California Secretary of State that independent voters may choose an AIP presidential primary ballot next March. The party took a similar position in 2016.
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Edited By Richard Winger
You know I wish you could see how many of the primary voters are independents rather than “registered members” (a couple hundred or thousand true-believers with 500,000 people thinking they were becoming independent). I can only assume that the vast majority of the 37,901 votes last time came from independents voting in the AIP primary rather than registered AIP voters.
The SOS does not report the number ov ballots cast, but did report the number of cross-over ballot req uests.
Orange County did.
Democrats 16.6% of ballots were cross-over.
AIP 30.4% of ballos were cross-over.
Libertarian 28.5% of ballots were cross-over.
But there were large numbers of undervotes particularly for minor parties.
AIP 78.0%, P&F 67.6%, Green 45.6%, Libertarian 35.6%, Republican 8.9%, Democrat 2.5%.
California should go back to the blanket primary, and include independent candidates.