FYI the generic term for being a registered voter without party affiliation is "non-aligned".
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

04/05/2023, 12:12:49

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One may also register as a (big- "L") Libertarian or as an American Independent party member (it's called something else in every state except Mexifornia), but that makes you an "aligned" voter. In open primary states, any registered person can vote in any primary election (though some vary in this policy). 

Just a note on political history no big-"L" candidate has ever won high office in the USA. Same for American Independent party member except when it was a national party in 1968 when George Wallace won 46 electoral votes for president. Since that time, the the most any such candidate has accomplished was to help one of the other candidates win.

Third parties have a dismal track-record - the last presidential candidate to win more than a single electoral vote was Ross Perot, which likely only helped elect Slick Willie Clinton to his first term by taking a significant number of votes from George Bush XLI.  

The American Independent Party in California is an off-shoot (now wholly separate) from the national Constitution Party and has never had a successful candidate in any state. Check your state for the current local incarnation of the American Independent or Constitution or Conservative party.*

*In local, state and national congress, candidates running/elected without party affiliation are denoted in media with the letter "I" by their names, instead of "D" or "R". That is somewhat misleading since they are technically "non-aligned - so it should really be abbreviated as "NA".







Modified by LateForLunch at Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 13:14:22


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