Because most states purge their voter registration rolls between elections, the United States has fewer registered voters now than in October 2010. There are fewer Democrats now, fewer Republicans now, fewer independent voters now, and fewer voters in each nationally-organized minor party now. The nationally-organized parties that existed in 2010 and that have as many as 500 registrants in the nation are the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Working Families, Reform, Socialist, and Socialist Workers Parties, in that order.
Americans Elect did not exist in 2010, and now has 3,285 registrants, so it is the only nationally-organized party that now has more registrants than in 2010.
UPDATE: an earlier version of this post said that Massachusetts had converted the state’s registered Libertarians to independents. The earlier version was mistaken about that. Massachusetts had 10,839 Libertarians registrants as of December 31, 2011. When that figure is added into the national Libertarian total, the Libertarians don’t have as many registrants nationally as they had had in October 2010, but they only declined by 390 nationwide.
Note that a draft movement for Thomas Friedman has just started for Thomas Friedman on Americans Elect.
See here http://www.americanselect.org/profile-candidate/368479/draft-status
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Richard’s focus on nationally-organized parties excludes the California Peace and Freedom Party from many of his analyses. But it is numerically larger than any nationally-organized socialist electoral party (granted, California is a big state). Its registration increased from 57,776 in October 2010 to 59,012 in January 2012 (2.1%). Does that offset the combined loss in voter registration by the Socialist Party and Socialist Workers Party?
#3, yes it does. Peace & Freedom registration in California is doing very well, and is now higher than at any tally since the October 23, 2006 tally.
@4 I guess that must mean they are paying for registrations again.
#5, we are not paying anyone to register voters, and haven’t since about 2001 or so. But we have to increase our registration dramatically before 2014, unless the law is changed to take the impact of Prop. 14 into account.
I have seen Peace & Freedom Party volunteers sitting at tables, registering more members.
Well, they paid me at least as recently as 2003 as well as many other people I know.
ALL party hack registration lists are PURGE lists.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
NO party hack registration lists.
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