CA Automatic Voter Registration and Party Affiliation Qualification

Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.

California recently created automatic voter registration, but solved Party affiliation qualification problem permanently.

The new California law for automatic registration creates a new category of voters, for party affiliation purposes.

That new category is “undeclared”.

An “undeclared” voter is one who has never made any choice about partisan affiliation, either to be an independent or to be a party member.

For purposes of the voter registration test for keeping parties on the ballot, “undeclared” voters are excluded from the calculation.











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