Voters can also download a registration form from Elections. Want to cast your ballot in the April 28 presidential primary elections? Registered Republicans and Democrats are pretty much already set.
But bulletin to unaffiliated voters — you have only a couple days left to change your voter registration to one of the two major parties before the Feb. New York is one of a dozen states that still have closed primary voting. That means you must be registered to vote with the party you wish to cast a ballot for on the presidential ballot. New York relaxed its deadlines last year to give independent voters two months before the deadline.
Before, unaffiliated voters had to register either as Republican or Democrat almost a year before they could vote for candidates of their selected party. In New York, the Independence Party not to be confused with independent voters has reached out to unaffiliated voters, over the objection of the Board of Elections, which did not want the hassle and expense of accommodating them.
In , the board appealed the Independence Party's decision to allow all voters to participate in their statewide primaries. In a scathing rebuke, the US District Judge hearing the case boiled down their argument to "we don't want to go to the trouble of ordering the adjustment of voting machines This would be 'machine politics' of an utterly new, and absurd, kind. The following year, the Board of Elections at first refused to allow the Richmond County Independence Party to open up their primary in the 61st Assembly District to independent voters, but again the board was overruled by a federal court.
The victory was, by most measures, a small one: Only 48 people total whether independent voters or Independence Party voters voted in that primary race. What are the chances of the other political parties allowing independents to vote in their primaries? In Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first term, he proposed a charter amendment to create a "nonpartisan election" system where the primary would be open to all voters and all candidates, regardless of party affiliation.
Voters overwhelmingly defeated the proposal. The cities whose primary system most resembles the proposal are Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Jacksonville. The arguments used for side-stepping the political parties go beyond an effort to include unaffiliated voters.
New York has some of the lowest voting rates in the country. It was ranked 30th in voter turnout for the general election. In the presidential primaries, turnout was 5.
Keep that in mind next time you hear about a New York candidate or ballot measure winning with a large percentage of the vote. Independent and third party voters are disenfranchised. When I look out at the thousands of people who are here tonight I think we've got a surprise for the establishment. Recent polls averaged by Real Clear Politics show Sanders' rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, holding a double-digit lead in the New York's Democratic contest, while Trump maintains an average lead of Ted Cruz and Gov.
John Kasich.
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