On November 2, the New York State Board of Elections released the first registration data since February 2020. New York had been the only state that had not released any registration data for any point in the last four months. Here is the link. Be careful to distinguish the active voters from the inactive voters.
The new percentages are: Democratic 50.06%; Republican 22.20%; Independence 3.51%; Conservative 1.22%; Working Families .33%; Green .20%; Libertarian .16%; SAM .01%; Womens Equality plus Reform .06%; independent and miscellaneous 22.25%. These are the active voters.
The February percentages had been: Democratic 50.43%; Republican 22.32%; Independence 3.70%; Conservative 1.26%; Working Families .34%; Green .21%; Libertarian .12%; Womens Equality .06%; Reform .02%; SAM .003%; independent and miscellaneous 21.55%.
How did you get the numbers for “Womens Equality plus Reform” since there isn’t a column for them anymore. Did you just take the number of “Other” voters which would also include people still registered in the Liberal, Right-to-Life, Sapiens, “Other: Blank”, etc parties besides just those two.
If the Libertarians and Greens lose ballot status in Nov. 2020, will the registrants be retained, or will they be re-registered as unaffiliated?
Elephants even more DEAD than in RED CA or RED MA ???
Are there actual registrant numbers or are there only percentages?
One can see the actual numbers by using the link.
The “other” is supposed to be publicly available, but we already know it consists entirely of the two parties that were on the ballot for Governor in 2018, but which are not qualified stories. I have phoned the New York State Board of Elections and asked for the two numbers. They say they will try to give it to me today. If they do, I will update the post.
One can see the actual numbers by using the link.
The “other” is supposed to be publicly available, but we already know it consists entirely of the two parties that were on the ballot for Governor in 2018, but which are not qualified parties. I have phoned the New York State Board of Elections and asked for the two numbers. They say they will try to give it to me today. If they do, I will update the post.
“but we already know it consists entirely of the two parties that were on the ballot for Governor in 2018, but which are not qualified parties” it definitely does not. There are thousands of voters that still have the RTL (Right to Life), LIB (Liberal), and OTH (Other:Blank) party codes which are included in “Others”. There are hundreds in my county alone.
New York does not change voters enrollment when a party goes off the ballot
@ Brandon wrote “New York does not change voters enrollment when a party goes off the ballot”
That is very good news to hear.
Brandon, the Green Party lawsuit that permitted voters to register into unqualified parties was limited to parties that were on the ballot in the most recent gubernatorial election. The parties you mention were not on for Governor in 2018, so their enrolled members have since been switched to independents.
I am literally looking at my county (Fulton County, NY) voter roll and there are still hundreds of people enrolled in RTL, LIB, and OTH besides the WEP and REF parties here is a link to a copy from this Spring: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rYnTIUYABb_XYGZ-DLaFuJ5X1BT1psQD/view?usp=sharing
NY does not change voter registrations if a party goes off the ballot
Braodon, sometimes counties don’t bother to change voter registration for parties that went off the ballot and which weren’t on the ballot in the last gubernatorial election. But the state won’t do a tally for such parties.
Yes they won’t do a statewide tally for those former parties but they are part of that “Other” category not just WEP and REF
@BL,
Before the 2018 gubernatorial election, Fulton County had 15 WEP, 4 Reform, and 35 Other voters. After the election there were 37 Libertaria, and 20 Other voters. Since then, the Others have declined to 16.
Statute says that non-qualified are converted to Blank (non-affiliated), but there may be court rulings.
Federal statute requires that there be a statewide registry of voters, though that may not keep a county from their own version. In California, the statewide report is technically compiled from county reports, but nowadays, the SOS prepares the county reports and sends them to the county to acknowldge their correctness. Alex Padilla’s system is defective in that it does maintain the actual affiliation.
In Texas, smaller counties directly enter registrations into the SOS system. If they didn’t they would still be using paper. Larger counties sync with the state system daily.