Tucson’s daily newspaper has this story about yesterday’s decision by a U.S. District Court Judge, approving Arizona’s voter registration form. The form only gives checkboxes to the Democratic and Republican Parties, even though the Americans Elect, Green, and Libertarian Parties are also ballot-qualified and also have their own primaries.
As Alfred E. Kahn once said, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
With all due respect to Judge Jorgenson, bovine feces.
The article is not accurate about a shift to unaffiliated. It is simply more people sign up as unaffiliated. This is particularly true in odd-years where new voters are mostly just signing up when they get drivers license or the like.
During election years, party registration also increases as some may see value in being affiliated with a party.