On May 28, the California Assembly passed AB 909, and AB 6. AB 909 provides that polling place officials must tell independent voters that they are free, at any partisan primary, to choose the primary ballot of the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, or the American Independent Party (the other 3 qualified parties, Libertarian, Green, and Peace & Freedom, do not permit independents to vote in their primaries; and the Republican Party allows independents to vote for everything except president).
AB 6 says that anyone who pays people to circulate a petition must register with the Secretary of State, and must train his or her employees. This bill is far more benevolent now than when it was first introduced. When it was first introduced, it said that all paid circulators must register as lobbyists. However, that original content was removed.
AB 909 does not state anything about independent voters. It covers voters the decline to state a
political party at the time of registration.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
Independent Party
In California, independent voters register decline to state. The American Independent Party may have many independents registered into it, but that is because they think it is independent and not a party. I would venture to say that most people in the American Independent Party are true independents.
Refutation to C. T. Weber.
You state “In California independent voters register to decline to state” [a political party].
Here in California most declined to state a political party when voting in the primary vote the
primary in one of three parties ballots by asking
for one of three ballots at their poling place under S. B. 28.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
Independent Party.