[EL] CA Republicans MIGHT (or might not) be outnumbered by "No Party Preference"

[Douglas Johnson]

FYI, be careful about relying on the registration counts from California, especially whether the ‘No Party Preference’ voters exceed Republican voters yet. The state’s new automatic registration system has been malfunctioning: voters who are already registered but who update their voter registration data at the DMV (with a new address, changing party, etc.) apparently gets registered both with the newly-updated information and again, as a 2nd registered voter, with the same info except listed as a “no party preference” voter. 

 

The LA Times has the details: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-motor-voter-registrations-errors-20180524-story.html

 

I have not been able to find any information on this in a quick search of the Secretary of State’s website. If anyone knows of the official explanation, or statistics on how many of these issues exist and how many have been cleaned up already, please share!

 

*	Doug

 

Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.

Fellow, Rose Institute of State and Local Government

at Claremont McKenna College

douglas.johnson at cmc.edu

direct: 310-200-2058

 

 

 

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:23 AM
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Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/30/18

 

 

 

 


 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99237> “Independent voters now outnumber Republicans in California”


Posted on  <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99237> May 30, 2018 8:09 am by  <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3> Rick Hasen

 <http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article212139534.html> SacBee reports.

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