New California Registration Data

Posted on by November 6, 2023

On November 6, the California Secretary of State released a new registration tally, the first since February 2023. See it here.

Percentages are: Democratic 46.82%, Republican 23.90%; American Indepedent 3.74; Libertarian 1.10%; Peace & Freedom .59%; Green .46%; Common Sense .11%; No Labels .11%; independent and other, 23.16%.

One year ago, the percentages were: Democratic 46.87%; Republican 23.85%; American Independent 3.54%; Libertarian 1.05%; Peace & Freedom .56%; Green .44%; Common Sense .12%; independent and other 23.57%.

Among the parties trying to get on the ballot, No Labels has 25,141; Common Sense has 25,017; American Solidarity 455; Constitution has 234. A year ago No Labels hadn’t started, Common Sense had 25,715, American Solidarity had 352, Constitution had 156.

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New California Registration Data — 12 Comments

  4. Richard, several sources have told me that the No Labels Party pulled their voter registration ballot access workers out of California. I do not think that they completed the job. If so, this means that they will not get party status in California.

    I heard that the No Labels Party increased the pay in California. They hired a group that pays by the hour or a salary. They told their workers that if they got 20 registrations per day that they would get $3,000 per week. This comes out to about $21.43 per registration card. I was told if they got their quota of 20 per day that this got them motel money. For some bizarre reason they.hired a group which had not worked in California before, and I am not aware of anyone who regularly does petition and voter registration work in California having worked on this, which is very unusual given that California is the #1 state in the country for petition work.

    I have spoken to eye witnesses who saw No Labels Party voter registration workers in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego, but this was weeks and months ago. I have asked around to contacts I have in the petition business in multiple parts of California, including the aforementioned counties as well as the counties of San Bernardino, Sacramento, Alameda and Contra Costa, and nobody has seen anyone working No Labels Party voter registrations.

    The they hired also hires people as employees instead of independent contractors, which is not the norm in ballot access, and as employees they were told that they would be fired if they worked any California petitions or anything other than No Labels Party voter registrations, and they would also not receive any travel money to leave the state.

    So if it is correct that No Labels Party will not qualify for the ballot in California as a party this means that if they do not drop out of the race they will have to do the independent presidential candidate petition, which can’t be started until April 26th.

    I heard that the No Labels Party currently have petition drives paying in Tennessee and in Idaho.

  5. It’s too bad the Common Sense and No Labels parties can’t merge; if all No Labels peeople would re-register for Common Sense, which is essentially the same ideology, that party would almost make it to ballot access.

    I believe this is the first time thte Republicans have not declined, which is worthy off note even if they haven’t increased that much.

    It’s good to see the American Solidarity Party moving in a positive direction.

  6. “It’s too bad the Common Sense and No Labels parties can’t merge;”

    What would they be called? The “No Sense” Party?

    But, seriously, neither of them have any sense of what a new party has to be. They need an express ideology, and identifiable leadership.

  7. Here’s an idea for the kind of party these people seem to want.

    How about they call themselves the Liberal Republican Party. They are the middle ground base for which these folks are seeking. They already have a mascot: the Rhino!

    There was briefly a Liberal Republican Party in the late 19th Century. They were derisively called the Mugwumps. But the political positioning seems to fit where these folks want to go.

  8. Thank you very much, Andy, for that interesting information.

    Any California group can still qualify by July 2024, but if they qualified it would just be for the presidential election, not the election for congress or partisan state office. But they would then be on the ballot for all office in 2026.

  9. WZ –

    MUG-LIBS PARTY. ???

    MUG-CONS PARTY ???
    —
    P-A-T

    E- DAY IN SOME STATES/LOCALS

    VOTE ONCE – MORE = SLAMMER FELONY

  11. “MUG-LIBS PARTY. ???

    MUG-CONS PARTY ???”

    Back then, the joke was that a Mugwump was a bird that sits on the fence with his mug on one side, and his wump on the other.

  12. No sense party sounds about right. They will probably hire a different outfit to complete their registration drive.

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