Boston Globe re: Voting in NY primary

[LiberalElite]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/04/17/voting-new-york-primaries-not-all-easy/klcm09X6XcNGKz5YLvdMjM/story.html

NEW YORK (AP) — As New York prepares for its most meaningful presidential primary in decades, some of the candidates’ most passionate supporters are finding out they will be spending Election Day on the sidelines.

Under state rules, only registered Democrats can vote in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. And only registered Republicans can vote in the GOP contest.

As for the 3.2 million New Yorkers registered with no party or a minor one, they are out of luck if they want to influence the outcome of the Democratic or Republican races. The deadline to switch to one of the two majors for the purpose of voting in the primary passed without fanfare back in October.

Two of Donald Trump’s children, Ivanka and Eric Trump, revealed recently they missed the deadline, thus barring them from voting for their father.


xposted in Sanders group and New York

[SidDithers]

1. What a shock...

Democrats choosing the Democratic nominee.

How awful is that.

Sid

[amborin]

2. i posted this this am in the Sanders group:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/nyregion/in-sanders-working-families-party-sees-a-dream-it-cant-vote-for-on-tuesday.html?_r=0

48,000 will not be able to vote

also read that the polls will open 6am in Chappaqua.....

[LiberalElite]

5. Thanks! I would have posted that but

I'm not a paying customer and I'm over my limit for the month.

[Karmadillo]

3. If we avoid voter registration drives & limit the number of registered voters who can actually vote,

Hillary can win this thing!!!!!!!

[Kang Colby]

4. I guess Bernie supporters were too busy "liking" his free stuff proposals on Facebook to properly...

register to vote. What a shame.

Too bad, so sad. The rules are the rules. Had Bernie spent more than a few months in the Democratic party, maybe his campaign would understand the process a little better. Do we really want someone this incompetent running the country? Absolutely not.

[LiberalElite]

6. What a load of obnoxous crap

but vote for your cheatin' queen. You deserve what you get.

[Kang Colby]

7. I mean every word of it. n/t

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. It's still a load of obnoxious crap, irrespective of how sincere you were.

[still_one]

13. You realize this does NOT affect those who are first time registrations, only existing ones.

For new registrations, that is those who haven't been registered before their deadline was March 25th, 2016, and there won't be a problem

[RobertEarl]

9. Why do you hate Bernie?

What did he do to you? He must have done something awful to make you act like this.

[Kang Colby]

10. I wouldn't say or suggest that I hate Bernie. That's over the top.

I do not like his rhetoric. I'm not interested in Bernie's plan for a "Great Leap Forward" in the spirit of Mao.

No, in all seriousness I think his policy ideas are garbage. Tobin taxes? LOL!

[TMontoya]

11. Also

Maybe if his supporters were less concerned with "safe spaces" and a white guy with dreadlocks and more involved in the Democratic party itself maybe they would have taken time to learn the rules of a PRIMARY.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. Where have I heard this sort of youth-punching before?

[speaktruthtopower]

8. It's a big deal..

the registration deadline passing before Sanders energized supporters, a lot of whom are young.

[TMontoya]

14. Oh well

Maybe Sanders should have been a Democrat longer. Its no ones fault his free college message wasn't heard in time.

[still_one]

12. That is the way it has been in New York for sometime. If the campaigns were concerned about it

they should have educated their supporters months ago.

Honestly, whose fault is this anyway? The rules are the rules. New York is a closed primary. For new registrations they have a specific deadline to register in order to vote in the primary. That deadline is March 25, 2016, NOT October as the OP says. So anyone who is new to voting in New York, there should not be a problem as long as they registered by March 25 2016.

The October deadline is only for those who were already registered, and now want to change their registration. Their deadline was in October. That is the way New York does it, and has been doing it.