On January 31, California elections officials released new registration data for each qualified party, and also for each political body. In California, a “political body” is a group that has told the Secretary of State that it is trying to qualify. The Justice Party was and is a political body, but Los Angeles County did not follow correct procedures, and reported “zero” members of the Justice Party. The Justice Party does have registered voters in Los Angeles County. The party has complained, but the county, so far, has said it is too much work to find the people who are registered in the Justice Party, because they are now in the computer as independent voters and someone would need to physically examine all the voters coded as independents to find the Justice Party members.
The moron bureaucrats threw away the original J.P. paperwork ???
How did L.A. County election officials find the 5,287 folks who are registered in the Reform, Conservative, La Raza Unida, and six other parties attempting to qualify? The Reform Party members could be from a long time ago. But several of the other organizations are quite new.
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#2, I think once a political body has been in the voter registration computer files, it just says there, so the system works OK for the older political bodies. The Justice Party is new and Los Angeles County seems to have failed to act on the Justice Party and possibly some of the other newer bodies.
La Raza Unida filed on December 1, and Los Angeles County reported 285 registrants. The Justice Party and American Concerned filed on December 21. Official notice of qualification of Americans Elect was on December 18.
Almost all of the registrants for the AEP are from Los Angeles and Orange counties, with 1/3 from CD-29 in the San Fernando Valley.
The party registration count on the LA county website
http://www.lavote.net/VOTER_ELECTIONS/Default.cfm?expand#viewparty
classifies Miscellaneous Other voters as “nonpartisan”, so we can’t rule out the possibility of incompetency.
The report is as of January 3, 2012.
The webpage for the latest report at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/154day-presprim-12/
has a phone number and web contact if you have any questions.
The reason Los Angeles County didn’t have trouble with La Raza Unida is that it was a political body in the past. At one time it had over 30,000 registrants in California. That was back in 1973. It is the only group that ever got half-way toward qualifying, and yet never qualified.
I suspect Los Angeles County’s voter registration computer has always had a code for La Raza Unida, even though in the interim it has not been a political body. Los Angeles County computer could probably even tell us how many registered Prohibition Party members there still are. It went off the ballot in January 1964.
#8 A jurisdiction with 1/4 of California’s voters can’t be bothered to actually count the number of persons registered with a party?
Doesn’t Elections Code 2180 require the printed index to include the actual political affiliation of each voter?
LA also claims it has no registrants with the Constitution Party.
Jim Riley
The lawyers at the CA Department of State do not reguard
non qualified political bodies as an a “affilation” with
in the meaning of SB 28. Three of them told me that on
January 13, 2012.
I note that Dr. Don “Three Dates” Grundmann’s Constitution Party of California is also down to zero in Los Angeles County and has only one elector left in his own County of Alameda. The registration of the Constitution Party of California is way down, viz.,
121.
I note that Dr. Grundmann, Chairman of the Constitution Party of California is also running for the United
States Senate.
I also note that the American Independent Party of California is running its Chairman of the Contra Costa
County Central Committee for United States Senate this
2012. The Chairman’s name is Vincent May. Vincent May’s daughter is the current Youth Director of the
American Independent Party of California. She was a
visitor to the 2010 AIP Convention in Sacramento County.
Conta Costa County is due East of Alameda County. Alameda County Central Committee Chairman of the AIP is Patrick Colglazier.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Chairman, American Independent Party of California
#8 What is “SB 28?”
What is their interpretation of the meaning of “number registered in nonqualified parties” in Elections Code 2187.
How does the SOS office reconcile
CCROV 10086, 12039, and 12049 (March 9, 2010; January 23, 2012; and February 1, 2012, and their notion that “party preference, or lack of party preference, as
disclosed upon the candidate’s most recent [affidavit of registration]” means something other than what the voter wrote when they registered and signed to certify that it was truthful and correct?
The Constitution Party has
#8 The Constitution Party of California has never had any registrants in Los Angeles County. Maybe Dean Logan doesn’t accept “Constitution”
Jim Riley
What is your source that the “Constitution Party” never
had any registrants in Los Angeles County!? I have spoke to electors in Los Angeles County who claimed they were registered in the Constitution Party. My guess they were electors that left the Constitution Party. Just as there were voters in the Justice Party and left that political body also.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Chairman, American Independent Party of California.