The Nevada Secretary of State posts voter registration data every month. The newest report out is for March 2007. Compared to November 2006, every qualified party in Nevada gained except for the Republican Party. The Constitution and Democratic Parties made the largest gains.
The March 2007 percentages are: Republican 40.23%, Democratic 40.22%, independent and miscellaneous 14.96%, Constitution 3.68%, Libertarian .63%, Green .29%.
The November 2006 percentages were: Republican 40.68%, Democratic 39.97%, independent and miscellaneous 14.99%, Constitution 3.48%, Libertarian .61%, Green .28%.
This data is for the active voters, not the inactive voters. The inactive voter data is not useful, because it includes hundreds of thousands of people who have moved (according to the post office).
The March 2007 numbers for the active voters are Republican 408,438; Democratic 408,301; independent and miscellaneous 151,811; Constitution 37,351; Libertarian 6,362; Green 2,915. In Nevada, the Constitution Party’s name is the Independent American Party. Recent reports that the Independent American Party has 45,480 registrants are based on the misleading data that includes inactive voters.
The November 2006 numbers for the active voters were Republican 403,020; Democratic 396,022; indp. & misc. 148,465; Constitution 34,458; Libertarian 6,088; Green 2,762.
First off, inactive voters count too.
Second, you need to get over the fact that the Libertarian Party isn’t cutting it in that state.
Also you failed to report that from November to March, the IAP GAINED in reg. voters while the other parties lost voters.
Please!
My experience has been that people listed on the inactive list are not really validly registered. They consist of people who have moved, according to the post office. People who have moved and who have not yet re-registered are not validly registered. Other names on the inactive list are frequently duplicates.
I have no problem with counting inactive voters, but the Independent American Party (just like the AIP in California) probably get the lion’s share of their registrants from people who think that they’re registering as independents, because of the name.
The article shows ind & misc. with over 151,000 and the AIP with over 37,000. I do not think people are mistakenly signing up with the AIP thinking they are independent. They can see that there is another category for independents so I belive the AIP’s growth is true. They have run many candidates and garnered alot of attention in Nevada and I think the good folks of Nevada are just responding to the AIPs’ message.
This has been discussed previously. If the Constitution Party has 40-45,000 registered voters in Nevada, why did their presidential candidate only get about 1,000 votes? That makes zero sense…
Obviously, a large percentage of IAP “members” are really people who think they are registering as an independent. Same exact thing happens in California.
It’s not a coincidence that 95% of all of the CP’s registered voters come from just two states, and those two states are NV and CA.
Does anyone know why more Constitution Party branches haven’t used the “American Independent” or “Independent American” moniker? It seems like an easy way to get more members.
Because the California affiliate at one time was affiliated with the “American Independent Party” started by George Wallace in 1968
The numbers may be true for calif. but I disagree in the case of Nevada. Yes the pres. candidate did not get alot of votes but when it comes to pres. many people dont vote for the best candidate, just the lesser of two evils and who has a “chance” to win. If you look at the state wide races in Nevada the AIP got over 20,000 for Gov. 25,000+ for Lt. Gov, over 35,000 for state treasurer and almost 39,000 for sec. of state. I think that shows the level of support for the party at the state level. I got these numbers from the state dept. of Nevada website.
“Joe Murphy Says:
June 1st, 2007 at 4:50 pm
The article shows ind & misc. with over 151,000 and the AIP with over 37,000. I do not think people are mistakenly signing up with the AIP thinking they are independent. They can see that there is another category for independents so I belive the AIP’s growth is true. They have run many candidates and garnered alot of attention in Nevada and I think the good folks of Nevada are just responding to the AIPs’ message.”
I’ve done a lot of petitioning and voter registration in California and Nevada. I can tell you for a fact that most of the people who registered with the American Independent Party and the Independent American Party checked that box by mistake thinking that it made them independents, which to do they were supposed to check the Decline To State A Political Party box.
Some of you like to point out the low number of presidential votes, but fail to note that the IAP candidate for judge got over 100,000 votes. Also in my home state the Constitution Party has never had more than about 250 registered members and we have in the past received more than 35,000 votes for a statewide candidate and 8,000 for a congressional candidate. Also the largest block of registered voters in my state is independents, but independents rarely win. If a parties registration translated into vote one for one then there would be no need for elections.