On June 2, the Delaware Elections Commission posted new voter registration data. Here are the statewide totals for all currently qualified parties, and also all the parties that have been qualified in the state for the last few decades. Parties need 780 registrants by August 25 to place nominees on the 2026 ballot. The Delaware Green Party had 774 registrants on May 2, but now has declined to 761.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156534
NY STATE GERRYMANDER MACHINATION FOR USA REPS 2027
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P.R. AND MAJORITY RULE
The Green Party is Colorado might as well be disqualified. Although it is officially listed as a minor party with ballot access by the Sec’y of State (https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Candidates/PoliticalPartyDirectory.html) the party has no leadership or contact persons, no website, no email, a fake phone number, and a mailing address that is a generic office building in downtown Denver. If it had a central committee, it could have placed candidates on the ballot (like Libertarians always do). There are ZERO Green Party candidates despite Big Oil polluter-funded Dems running for re-election, especially Senator John Hickenlooper and 30-year incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette. The GP has become the Marxist version of the GOP, a personality cult with a perennial presidential nominee who has a crush on Vladimir Putin. It’s sad.
The Green Party in Colorado…
WHAT IS THE GREENEST USA STATE AS SEEN FROM THE MOON ON 22 JUNE EACH YEAR ???
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1314_7m58.pdf
scotus opinion 6-3 – AL gerrymander case 2 JUNE 2026
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/supreme-court-allows-alabama-congressional-012609241.html
AP STORY RE ABOVE AL OP 637 PM
HOW MUCH CHAOS FOR CERTAIN IN THE SO-CALLED ELECTION ???
POSSIBLE RE-DO ELECTION IN 2027 ???
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/02/supreme-court-alabama-map-black-voting-rights-act/90318632007/
UT STORY RE AL SCOTUS OPIN ABOVE
Automatic Voter Registration tends to decrease partisan registration. When voters go to the DMV they are automatically registered. They are sent a notice, with options:
Decline to register (registration is cancelled)
Do nothing (e.g., throw notice in trash; set it aside with intention to deal with it later – but toss it with the pizza box)
Return notice with new party affiliation.
AVR registration is at least 80%. Conventional registration increases in election years, and the AVR share declines). In the July 2023-June 2024 period, AVR was over 90%. It will be interesting to see the July 2025-June 2026 report.
A little over 2% of AVR registrants cancel their registration.
Of those who received a notice of registration and did not cancel the registration, 64% did no respond to the notice. This could indicate indifference, or simply meant were fine with being registration and saw no reason to respond since the notice said you could do nothing. But of those who did respond, 60% chose No Party, so overall among those who were registered by AVR:
85.2% No Party
8.8% Democratic
5.3% Republican
0.5% Independent Party of Delaware
0.04% Conservative
0.04% Nonpartisan
0.03% Liberal
0.03% Libertarian
0.02% Green
The parties that are qualified in Delaware (more than 0.1%, 1 in 1000) are not maintaining that rate among AVR voters. Because of Delaware’s closed primaries, some voters will change their registration before a primary. But the deadline to do so was the end of May, and the primary is in September.
Before AVR was implemented “parties” that represented philosophies more than an actual political party (e.g. Liberal, Conservative, Nonpartisan, Independent Party of Delaware, American) were gaining registration share. Those that represented an actual party with a name that may indicate a philosophy (e.g. Libertarian, Green) were increasing registration. Those that were formerly active parties were declining probably through attrition with voters moving from the state or dying, or perhaps switching to something more practical (e.g. Natural Law, Reform, Blue Enigma, Constitution, American Delta, No Labels).
I think that before AVR, voters who registered under the Motor Voter law, would get a follow-up mail if they had not chosen a party. They would given the list of parties and would chose one.
If the Green Party can split the commie vote and elect patriots I am all for them.
Jim Riley, what’s “practical” about the parties you label as such? Are they showing any signs of gaining traction, rapid growth, success on any level not heretofore typical of minor parties? If they claim to be politically centrist, how would they prove such a claim? Does the Constitution Party belong on that list, and if so, why?
@Q,
Practical in the sense of the voter. If you were a Natural Law registrant you are barred from participating in a primary or having a Natural Law nominee. If you wanted to vote in a primary or have a party nominee you have to have change your party registration. Now it might not matter. Some Natural Law registrants may not remember that was what they registered as back in 2000, or never vote, or only vote in rare presidential elections. For them there is no practical reason to update their registration. The number of Natural Law registrants has been declining since 2010. I suspect most of the decline is due to registrants dying, or moving. If they move from Delaware they will eventually be removed from the voter roll. If they move within the state, they will likely change their affiliation. The clerk will not ask, “And I suppose you will continue your Natural Law affiliation (snicker)? The registrant may never have voted or forgot they were Natural Law.
But I was primarily characterizing voter responses to stimuli in the voter registration process. Delaware used to provide a long list of choices, most voters chose Democratic, Republican, or No Party. They tended not to pick actual parties such as Natural Law, Reform, Constitution, American Delta evidenced by decline over time.
The strongest growth was for Liberal, Conservative, Independent Party of Delaware, American. While these might represent parties, it is likely that the registrants were saying they were liberal, conservative, independent or an American.
Libertarian / libertarian or Green / opposed to pollution are more equivocal.
Since Delaware adopted AVR almost all groups have declined. Instead of asking registrants what party they want, they tell people who went to the DMV that they are now registered, but don’t worry you don’t have to do anything unless you really don’t want to me registered (e.g. Jehovah Witness). If you want to change your registration you can send this notice back – but don’t worry you can always change it online. Of recent registrations 85% are ending up as No Party, and fewer are ending up as Liberal, Conservative, Green, Libertarian, etc.
That’s predictable. All the minor parties will basically have to either pay for voter registration drives or go off the ballot there.