Opinion New York’s primary is ‘closed shut’ by insane registration rules

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

IMO anything other than an open primary with same day registration is voter disenfranchisement.


http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/new-yor...tration-rules/



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Rupert Murdoch thanks you for your support of the NY Post.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Not really but understandable if it were so. Just that most of my family and friends are Hillary supporters simply because either Bernie is a 'Soshialist', one or two feel he is a commie, but mostly because he is 'not electable' so why bother. I have put you in that last group.

When it comes right down to it.... I'm a soshalist.

But, I'm practical enough to understand all candidates have their limitations. It's a matter of deciding which limitations I can live with.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Rupert Murdoch thanks you for your support of the NY Post.

The left is saying the same thing.

You can run, but you can't hide.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/1...ranchised_from

Voters head to the polls today in New York for both the Democratic and Republican primary in one of the most closely watched races of the election. But millions of New Yorkers won’t be able to vote, thanks to the state’s restrictive voting laws. The state has no early voting, no Election Day registration, and excuse-only absentee balloting. The voter registration deadline for the primary closed 25 days ago, before any candidate had even campaigned in New York. Meanwhile, independent or unaffiliated voters had to change their party registrations back in October—over 190 days ago—to vote in today’s closed Democratic or Republican primaries. Meanwhile, WNYC is reporting there are 60,000 fewer registered Democrats in Brooklyn and no clear reason why. This comes as a group of New Yorkers who saw their party affiliations mysteriously switched filed a lawsuit seeking to open the state’s closed primary so that they can cast a ballot. We speak to The Nation’s Ari Berman, author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America."

[bobabode]

Ignorance of the rules isn't a valid defense Tom. Also, anyone can vote a provisional ballot if there is some snafu in their registration.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Ignorance of the rules isn't a valid defense Tom. Also, anyone can vote a provisional ballot if there is some snafu in their registration.

We're not talking about "snafu's".

We're talking about rules specifically designed to shut people out.

The same principal is in play here as the "rules" that the Old South used to keep blacks from voting.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

We're not talking about "snafu's".

We're talking about rules specifically designed to shut people out.

The same principal is in play here as the "rules" that the Old South used to keep blacks from voting.

Bullshit. You're comparing party primary elections to general elections.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Bullshit. You're comparing party primary elections to general elections.

They should be the same.

Forcing independents to wait until the two private clubs have narrowed the choices down to two "acceptable" candidates is indefensible.

And what you are doing is defending the indefensible because in this case it happens to serve your purposes.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Ignorance of the rules isn't a valid defense Tom. Also, anyone can vote a provisional ballot if there is some snafu in their registration.

I now pronounce you our resident 'excusenik', and well earned if I may say so.

[icenine]

Last I checked Bernie is an independent running on a Democratic party platform. If he was running as an independent without a party where would he be?

[Boreas]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.2606498

http://thebernreport.com/election-ju...in-ny-primary/

I understand the hearing id in progress now. This is getting ridicilous.