[internetworkers] Candidate Match for Pres

Edward Wesolowski edwes at idisplay.com
Thu Feb 12 12:57:28 EST 2004


Thomas:
A workaround could be to change your registration (I expect that's "easy" 
and then you could change it back after the election. I'm a registered 
"Independent" myself, so I've got the same "challenge."
But, then again,
 >I don't see why anyone not affiliating themselves with a political party 
should be allowed to vote in that party's >primary.  The point of a primary 
is to select /your/ party's candidate for office.  What do you think a 
party is for?
What Diana said!-)
Oh, and
 > Haud your wheesht...,:)
What the heck does that mean, anyway? No, on second thought, I'm probably 
not old enough to know;-)
Ed Wesolowski

At 12:40 PM 2/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 00:55 US/Eastern, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
>>Thomas Beckett wrote:
>>
>>>The never-ending redistricting litigation has put the very basis of the 
>>>elections in to question, so the state Board of Election put off the 
>>>state primary elections until July.  That is far too late for any 
>>>meaningful participation in the presidential selection process, so the 
>>>state party is implementing a contingency plan for electing delegates in 
>>>lieu of the established primary election.  You must be a registered 
>>>Democrat to participate.
>>
>>So, who do I complain about for the fact that all of us who refuse to
>>affiliate with a political party are now effectively disenfranchised?
>>I was planning on voting in the democratic primary (because there
>>really isn't a republican primary this year) to hopefully influence in
>>some micro-miniscule way the election but now I just have to accept
>>what's given to me in the November election?!?  What's the point
>>of having laws that say independents can vote in primaries then?
>>The question is, who's fault it it?  The republicans for the damn
>>lawsuit or the democrats for moving things around.  <sarcasm>Perhaps
>>I should just sue them all</sarscasm>.  Nah, better to vote them
>>all out of office...
>>
>>Tanner
>
>I don't see why anyone not affiliating themselves with a political party 
>should be allowed to vote in that party's primary.  The point of a primary 
>is to select /your/ party's candidate for office.  What do you think a 
>party is for?  It's a club of like-minded voters (roughly) and if you are 
>not a member, then you don't get to play.  What laws say independents can 
>vote in primaries?  Is this some crazy North Carolina thing?  In Ohio, you 
>must be registered as a member of the party to vote in that party's 
>primary.  Haud your wheesht, Tanner.  :)
>
>Diana
>
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