Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C., recently released voter registration data for all the states in which voters are asked on voter registration forms to choose a political party (or independent status). However, Third Way’s report only includes voters who are registered Republican, Democratic, and independent. There is no mention in the Report that approximately 2.4% of the nation’s voters (in the states that ask for party membership) are members of minor parties.

Some of the “independent” totals for certain states in the Third Way report do include minor party members, but the report does not tell its readers that this is the case. For certain other states, minor party members are completely outside any of the three columns, so that anyone using Third Way’s report to know the number of registered voters in that state will get an incomplete total.

The officers of Third Way have been asked to improve the Report. The initial response has been negative; an officer of Third Way said in an e-mail that their readers are not interested in knowing how many minor party registrants there are. Third Way has a large Board of Trustees, and a communication has been sent to each member of the Board. A majority of the Board members are associated with the banking and hedge fund industry. Here is a link to the Report. Ballot Access News encourages anyone to contact members of the Board of Trustees, or any one of them. Here is a list of the Board of Trustees.