Posted on 02/06/2008 9:01:01 AM PST by PsyOp
I’ve been on the books as Republican for years, but waaalaaa, all of a sudden I’m non-partisan. Makes ya wonder , huh?
I didn’t ask to change nor did my wife, and after experiencing this, I am inclined to stop voting. Why bother? The deck is stacked against us any way you cut it...
This latest primary season has proven that freesom is meaningless if one has no choice.. so why bother when asked what you want to see as an agenda and be asked to vote for this or that candidate.
The left has achieved their goal, they have effectively tipped the applecart over stolen the load.. and many on the right are apparently content to let it happen.
Where is the outrage from the GOP? There is no GOP anymore, they have morphed into something many of us are hard pressed to define.
I think it’s a dumb thing to do as I believe there’s not much choice between the Dems or Repubs. You got left leaners running, and winning, in both parties so why bother cheating?
YOu are missing the point (that happens when you dont read carefyully), these are Republicans who had their registration changed to NON-Partisan without their knowledge and consent.
We are not tlaking about people who were non-partisan to begin with, but life-long Republicans who showed up to the polls to discover their party affiliation had been changed.
I thought that independents weren’t allowed to vote in the Rep or Dem primaries. I’m registered as an independent but when I went to the poll (Campbell, CA) I was asked which ballot I wanted. I asked for and they gave me the Republican ballot.?.?
BTW several of those who claimed repub, but showed NP, openly said they would take a dem ballot just to vote against Hill, I'd say half a dozen.
One more. There were some people who said they never changed addresses and had been life-long repubs, who showed NP. There were also a handful who I believe didn't know how they were registered, but had a guess. Also, we had one dem who wanted a repub ballot LOL!
The CA media has been touting how much greater the Democratic turnout in CA was versus the GOP numbers.
John McCain’s master George Soros has many tricks.
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Well, the claim is that those who registered as Republicans were changed to 'decline to state' in a selective manner. I suspect that we'll find most of this is folks who've forgotten how they're registered and have forgotten that this happened to them four years ago also.
From the reporting so far, this appears to be a state-wide phenomenon, which means it wouldn't advantage any particular candidate. The candidates are apportioned on the basis of which candidate won in a given congressional district. So, even if there was a reduction in the Southern California vote it wouldn't have a significant impact on the delegate count. In fact, there's been ongoing complaints that liberal Republicans located in heavily Democratic districts have an excessive impact on the primaries because it takes so few of them to carry the district. Seems to me the same thing would apply to conservatives in So. Cal if you cut back the total vote.
You'd have to go way out there, assuming that somehow the great conspiracy was able to pre-determine who the Romney voters were and just change their registration, before you could argue that whatever happened 'suppressed' conservative votes.
Were you American Independent Party or Non-Partisan? Some people said they were “independent”, meaning non-partisan, but they were registerd AIP and had to vote in the AIP primary. The Dems and AIP had open primaries and allowed NPs to vote in their primary. If an NP just went NP then they could only vote for the propositions and local measures, no presidential slate. The repubs had a closed primary and only repubs could vote for their slate.
Things seem to be getting pretty screwy, that’s for sure. Registration/voting rules should be required to appear by a certain date in a darned full page ad. With people constantly moving from state-to-state, etc., it’s going to get worse. There has to be some sort of uniformity.
The elections supervisor down there is a guy named Dean Logan who used to be the guy in King County, WA.
Same sort of corruption in King County as what you are hearing about in So. Cal.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Christine Gregoire, the runner up in the Governor’s race, but eventual WINNER by recount after recount (they counted until she had enough votes, then stopped), owes her office to Dean Logan.
Free Republic is sounding more and more like the wacko left wing sites. Every lost election is a stolen election. Remember when they used to blame Karl Rove for manipulating every election the leftists lost.
Good for you !!! A Republican in NY holding her ground.
Wow!!! So instead of winning California by ~190,000 votes, McCain only won by ~180,000?!?!?!
Outrageous! Were was Rove last night?
/ sarcasm
To be clear... Registered Republicans showed up to the polls to vote, only to find that they were no longer carried on the rolls as Republicans. They were now being carried as non-partisan and told they could not have a Republican Primary ballot.
These people all have been saying on air and by e-mail that they never changed their party affiliation.
Neither were many aware of the fact, or informed by poll workers, that they could fill out a provisional ballot to correct this problem.
The parties can decide their rules for the primaries. Sometimes they are open and sometimes they aren’t. I think the dems allowed open voting this time in CA to pick up additional folks for the November election.
Yeah, and our government really blow up the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Yeah, and our government really blew up the World Trade Center on 9/11.
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