Los Angeles County, California, keeps a running total of the number of registered voters in each party, and the number of independents. Here is a link to that page.

Since registration closed for the June 3 primary on May 19, the number of registered voters has declined. Every qualified party has declined, except that the Libertarian Party has increased. The number of voters not registered in any qualified party has declined. Democrats have dropped 4,731; Republicans have dropped 3,980; American Independent has dropped 234; Americans Elect has dropped 28; Green has dropped 67; Peace & Freedom has dropped 20; the total of independent voters and voters registered in other parties has dropped 670.

Libertarian registration has gained 61.

The Morris Daily Herald here condemns Illinois Democratic Party leaders for filing challenges to the two statewide initiatives this year. So far the two initiatives are off the ballot, but the legislative term limits measure may yet qualify if it wins in the Illinois Supreme Court.

Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich was recently on the Amy Goodman radio show. Goodman asked him, “Proportional representation is really the name of the game in Sweden, right? Anyone who gets – I think it’s 4% of the vote, can be represented in Parliament. Can you comment on this? It’s a growing movement in the United States.

Kucinich replied: Well, it should happen. So, it’s really a step towards democratization, so that points of view that are held in the general populace are not squelched because they don’t reach some numerical sigificance that we call a majority. You know, majority politics are all very interesting, but what’s happening in the United States, with increasingly blurring the differences between the two parties, there’s a hunger for alternatives, and there’s a hunger for those alternatives to find a means of inclusion into the process. So, certainly, that’s one way to do it. And we need to broaden our discussion in America. When you come here (to Sweden) and you see so many different political persuasions represented, and our politics back home are monochromatic – I mean, increasingly. It’s grey, and you can’t really tell the difference. Here, you can. But at the same time, there’s a common commitment to the nation. We need to awaken those sentiments in America. And one way to do it is proportional representation.”

Thanks to Steve Hill for this information.