On February 6, the California Secretary of State released a registration tally for January 3, 2020. All qualified political parties gained registration as a percentage of the total (except for Green), and the number of independents declined. Here is a link.
The percentages are: Democratic 44.59%; Republican 23.71%; American Independent 2.94%; Libertarian .86%; Peace & Freedom .46%; Green .44%; unknown .50%; other .59%; independent 25.90%.
The percentages at the last tally, the October 1, 2019 tally, were: Democratic 44.06%; Republican 23.58%; American Independent 2.86%; Libertarian .84%; Green .45%; Peace & Freedom .44%; unknown .47%; other .56%; independent 26.74%.
This is the first time since the Green Party gained qualified status that the Peace & Freedom Party has more registrants than the Green Party.
For the unqualified parties, the Common Sense Party showed considerable growth, although it is still far from being qualified. It now has 9,819 registrants, whereas at the previous tally it had 5,519. It is too late for it to qualify for the congressional and state office 2020 primary, but it can still qualify to have a presidential nominee if it increases its registration to approximately 68,000 by July 2020.
The Constitution Party appears to have suffered because some counties seemed to have showed zero registrants, whereas it had registrants in those same counties at the last tally. This may be because the registrants are registered “Constitution” but the party’s paperwork, filed late last year, shows the name of the party is the “Constitution Party of California”, so some counties take that literally and don’t include “Constitution”.
ALL govt party registration lists = PURGE lists.
See Hitler/Stalin PURGES.
California should eliminate write-in party registration. Instead, it should adopt a system similar to Florida, where a party is recognized if it demonstrates cognizable organization. California might adopt a reasonable level for recognition, say 100 registrations. If a new party seeks to be recognized have 100 voters to sign affidavits. This would permit others to register with the party.
A recognized party would be required to have a republican form of governance. Elections would be by mail conducted in the odd years. The state would mail out ballots, and collect them, and turn them over to the party for processing. If a party preferred to use conventions, the mailout would be a notice rather than a ballot per se.
A party could have a dormant state, where voters could register, but there would be no party organization. Then could cover parties such as Natural Law or Reform. A state convention could be held to reactivate the party. New registrants would be required to register with a recognized party, or as Independent, Nonpartisan, NPP, or Unknown, all of which would be treated as equivalent. A candidate in a Top 2 election could use any of those description or nothing at all.
If registration fell below 100, a warning would be sent to voters, before changing their registration to unknown.
NOOO party hack caucuses [Feb 2020 Iowa Donkey type disasters], primaries and conventions.
ONLY EQUAL voter nom pets for ballot access — that SCOTUS *modicum* of support.
That’s a huge jump for the AIP – 508,000 in Oct 2018 to 600,000 now.
The Democrats are also up big.
Unfortunately, most of the Amerixan Independent Party’s registered voters in CA have no idea what the party is, or even that it is a party.
Aip is really a sham and a scam at this point.
Common Sense has large numbers because fraud was involved. https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/feb/12/signature-gatherers-duped-san-diegans-signing-new-/