"32,000 voters in California's American Independent Party changed their official registration and left the party in the two weeks after a Los Angeles Times investigation identified widespread confusion among the party's members.
The Times found 73% of American Independent Party members did not know they had registered
with an actual political party.
The exodus equates to about 6.7% of the AIP's total registration as of mid-April, which was 473,481 voters.
Elections officials in counties across California have recounted several years of voters being confused by the party's use of the word "independent" in its name — a name that dates back to the founding of the AIP during the 1968 presidential campaign of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Leaders of the American Independent Party said they believe AIP voters may simply be re-registering "temporarily" so they can cast votes in the Democratic or Republican presidential primary on June 7.
Mitchell was able to find the new registration of 14,827 former AIP voters — a little less than half of those who left in the final two weeks of April. Of those, 36.5% re-registered as Republican and 32.5% opted to become Democrats. Thirty percent became unaffiliated, "no party preference" voters." LosAngelesTimes
The Times found 73% of American Independent Party members did not know they had registered
The exodus equates to about 6.7% of the AIP's total registration as of mid-April, which was 473,481 voters.
Elections officials in counties across California have recounted several years of voters being confused by the party's use of the word "independent" in its name — a name that dates back to the founding of the AIP during the 1968 presidential campaign of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Leaders of the American Independent Party said they believe AIP voters may simply be re-registering "temporarily" so they can cast votes in the Democratic or Republican presidential primary on June 7.
Mitchell was able to find the new registration of 14,827 former AIP voters — a little less than half of those who left in the final two weeks of April. Of those, 36.5% re-registered as Republican and 32.5% opted to become Democrats. Thirty percent became unaffiliated, "no party preference" voters." LosAngelesTimes
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