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This message was self-deleted by its author (Original post)	silvershadow	Mar 2016	OP
Only two weeks....	daleanime	Mar 2016	#1
That's just for new voters correct?	xloadiex	Mar 2016	#2
Believe it or not, the deadline in New York State to change party registration was last OCTOBER 9!	LiberalElite	Mar 2016	#3
Yeah, that's kind of insane.....	daleanime	Mar 2016	#4
voters can register online as well. link:	Quayblue	Mar 2016	#5

Response to silvershadow (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 03:42 AM

daleanime (17,796 posts)

1. Only two weeks....

time to print some new forms.

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Response to daleanime (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 04:16 AM

xloadiex (628 posts)

2. That's just for new voters correct?

I just read a post that said 25% of New Yorkers are independents voters who will not be able to participate in the primary because they didn't change their affiliation in time. There is a petition to try and change this.

http://www.openprimariesny.nyc

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Response to xloadiex (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:07 AM

LiberalElite (14,691 posts)

3. Believe it or not, the deadline in New York State to change party registration was last OCTOBER 9!

PLEASE NOTE THIS LINK IS FROM LAST OCTOBER:

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/06/democracy_bureacracy.php

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When your lawmakers spend their days doing the bidding of developers and large corporations, and only sometimes get arrested for it, it can be easy to forget that we live in a democracy. Even easier to forget: though the presidential primary is not until April 19th of next year, the deadline for changing one's party is this Friday.

An obscure bit of election law (Section 5-304) requires voters to change their party enrollment prior to the registration deadline for the general election in November the year before the primary, giving New York the earliest change-of-party deadline of the 11 U.S. states with a closed primary system. New York is also the only state among those 11 where the deadline doesn't fall within the same calendar year as the primary.

NY State Board of Elections spokesman Tom Connolly couldn't pinpoint when the rule went into effect, but said he believed it was created to discourage "party raiding," where activists from one party change affiliation en masse to screw with an opposing party's primary results.
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Response to LiberalElite (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:52 AM

daleanime (17,796 posts)

4. Yeah, that's kind of insane.....

isn't it? But this one is only for 'new' voters, so it's time to scour the high schools and colleges in the area.

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Response to silvershadow (Original post)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 01:31 AM

Quayblue (1,045 posts)

5. voters can register online as well. link:

https://dmv.ny.gov/more-info/electronic-voter-registration-application

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