The Washington Post and other media are reporting that for the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans in the U.S. than there are registered independents. This news originated with the March 1 2020 print edition of Ballot Access News, which is in the postal mail to subscribers.
See this story.
NOOOO public party PURGE lists.
19 States must liberate the 31 TYRANT PURGE LIST States ASAP.
I’d like to see an article about the percentages of eligible voters who are actually registered to vote, and how that trend has changed over time relative to party preference.
I can’t wait to see the March 1 print edition! I always love to see the registration tally by party and state!!
Meaningless statement when:
1.) A lot of states don’t do party registration.
2.) Independents are allowed to vote in primaries due to the idiocy of open primaries.
At least one reason comes to mind that suggests these numbers might not represent as much of a trend as they seem to. With 31 states reporting party affiliation, and 19 states not doing so, that’s very close to a 3:2 ratio. In other words, we’re getting this data from only 60% of the states. Fortunately, the data is provided as percentages, not hard counts, which makes it more useful. But we still have to make sure we don’t just take the percentages from the 60% and superimpose them onto the 40%. As soon as I heard 19 states don’t require voters to register party affiliation, my instincts kicked in and, I would say, informed me that concealing or tightly regulating the flow of information is a far more Republican impulse/tactic than it is a Democratic one. If so, this suggests that most of these non-reporting states are actually Republican controlled ones, and are perhaps even largely those states which have ranked as solid Republican for decades. In that case, for those states, voting as an Independent rather than a Republican is probably quite rare, as would also be becoming an Independent once you reach voting age. I suspect that nationwide the percentage of voters who are Republican still outweighs by a substantial margin the percentage who are Independents.