On January 17, the Florida Secretary of State’s office posted new voter registration data for all the state’s qualified parties. One of the mildly amusing facts revealed in this registration tally is that Americans Elect, which is ballot-qualified in Florida, only has four registered members.
Americans Elect does not encourage people to register as members of the party. Americans Elect has its own privately-financed on-line presidential primary process, and any registered voter in the United States is free to participate. There is no need for voters to register “Americans Elect” to participate in the group’s activities. Florida law requires that the statewide officers of any party be registered members of that party, however, so Americans Elect had to make sure that its statewide officers were registered into the party.
On January 23, California will release a new voter registration tally, and it will be interesting to see how many California voters have registered “Americans Elect.” Americans Elect is a qualified party in California, and soon new voter registration forms will list Americans Elect as a choice. In the meantime, Californians have been free to register into Americans Elect, by filling out the “Other” line on the voter registration form and writing it in.
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Four members out of how many voters? Widespread support?
JSM has more operatives than 4 who reside in Florida. They can’t even convince the people working for them to support this (except as a scam to line their pockets).
When does Elections Code 5101 kick in?
It would be cool if they were all members of the same family and household. They could hold a primary in their kitchen.
As a former Floridian for nearly 50 years, I still follow closely what goes on in my home state. So I was somewhat appalled by several of the comments regarding the lack of registered members of Americans Elect.
Either they have not done their homework and did not read the article or they are purposefully submitting false and self indulgent statements because they have a hidden agenda.
Americans Elect is a non partisan group that is not working with any candidate and is not a third party in the traditional sense. Their purpose is to provide the American electorate with another nomination path – one in which a few delegates don’t have the power to decide for everyone else who should be the nominees for President. All someone has to do is go to their website to view their process. It is that easy.
The current system is broken. When voters from Florida, New York, California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas etc. don’t have an equal say on who is the nominee for their party, something has to change. The Internet has made all of that possible. Americans Elect has given the entire electorate the ability to nominate a candidate for President who will be on all 50 states ballots.
The two parties don’t like it and the press seems to have their own agenda, though I can’t figure out why they would want to discourage a wide open exciting election. In any case, those who try to pigeonhole the Americans Elect process as a third party candidacy designed to help the other party win don’t have a clue of what they are talking about. The whole political process in this country is about to change. I am awed by how fast this is happening. Democracy is about to come alive again in the United States of America.