Beware of the 'American Independent Party'
Source: Los Angeles Times
... While this is not breaking news, it’s worth repeating, especially with the May 19 deadline to register to vote in the June primary:
The American Independent Party, or AIP, is California’s fastest-growing political party, with about 2.6% of all registered voters — a lot of them, in all likelihood, because of a mistake: the word “independent.”
There’s no other logical explanation for why the third-largest party in one of the nation’s most liberal states is the party whose presidential nominees have included segregationists George Wallace and Lester Maddox. According to its platform, the AIP is God-inspired, anti-gay marriage, antiabortion and dedicated to “freedom from liberalism.”
... So they see American Independent Party on the voter registration form. Alphabetically, it’s the first choice listed, and, as California Voter Foundation President Kim Alexander told me, it’s the only place the word “independent” appears on the form.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-voter-registration-california-american-independent-party-20140403,0,5053028.story
