The Arizona Secretary of State has posted this January 1, 2015 registration data. The data shows that the Green Party has 5,051 registrants. This is the first Green registration tally in Arizona since the October 1, 2013 tally, when the Greens had 5,601 registrants. The state had stopped releasing Green registration data because the party had gone off the ballot, but elections officials did acknowledge that many registered voters continued to be Green registrants. By contrast, some states forcibly convert minor party registrants into independent voters when the party goes off the ballot, without even asking the voter. States that do this are Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Oklahoma (when a party goes off the ballot in Oklahoma, all its members are converted to independents, but then they are permitted to re-register back into that same party, a policy that is senseless).
The new tally also shows that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have each lost registrations since the November 2014 tally, but the Libertarian and Americans Elect totals, and the number of independent voters, have increased since November 2014. The link shows not only current data, but data from November 2014 and January 2014.
So as I read the data Americans Elect has less then 500 registered folks?
Thta’s right, but it is the biggest registration Americans Elect has ever had in Arizona. Americans Elect only had 111 registrants in Arizona in early 2012.
If the Maine Green Independent Party lost status, would its 40,000 plus members become independents automatically?
That’s a question like asking what the sound of one-hand-clapping sounds like. The Maine Green Party can’t lose its qualified status unless it has fewer than 10,000 registered voters who actually cast a ballot in the November statewide state election.
But that is a fairly new law. Before it was passed, if a party failed to get 5% for Governor or President, it went off the ballot. Under the old law, the Reform Party went off and the state did convert all its members to independents. However, the Reform Party could have forestalled that by filing the notice with the Secretary of State that it intended to re-petition. Under the old law, which provided for a petition for a party to gain status, any group that filed the notice that it intended to petition could have people register into it. I’m pretty sure the old law would not have erased all those voter registrations just as the party was again getting permission to obtain them.
Reminder – ALL govt party hack lists are PURGE lists.
See the Stalin and Hitler purges in the 1930s.
NO govt party hack registration lists.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.