Talking to Independent Voters

Thanks to the sharp eye of The Hankster

During the summer Independents usally petition for candidate placement on a ballot for the Independence Party of NY. This summer with no ballot requirements for Nov 07', we went to the streets in NYC to increase participation by telling people about CUIP.

The Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Inc. (CUIP) is a national strategy center and organizing hub that designs and executes cutting edge tactics to develop America's growing independent movement. Founded in 1994, CUIP mounts political, legal, legislative and organizing challenges to partisan control of the political process. It has pioneered methods of organizing independents without a political party, creating independent voter associations to project the voice of the 35% of the electorate that considers itself independent. For CUIP, independents are not “swing voters” who exist to be wooed and swayed by one or the other major party. Independents have strongly held beliefs about how partisanship and ideological labeling are corrupting and constraining progress. Independents defy traditional political labels; what they share is support for the principle that radical structural reform of the electoral process and of government is the urgent political necessity of the day.

Thanks to the sharp eye of The Hankster

Michael H. Drucker
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