CA Bill Attacks American Independent Party

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

California State Senator Tom Umberg (D-34th District), has amended SB 696, to make it Illegal for any party to have Independent in its name.

The Amendment has its First Hearing on July 3rd, in the Assembly Elections Committee.

The American Independent Party has been on the Ballot since 1968, and will fight this in Court.

Umberg says the Party's Name causes Confusion, and that People Register in the Party, thinking they are becoming Independent Voters.

The New York Legislature has been discussing the use of the word Independent/Independence in a Political Party Name.

There is the Independence Party and Independent Voters.

Voters who want to Register as an Independent Voter were Registering into the Independence Party. So the State Legislature has been working on Bills to control the names a Political Party use to define themselves.



But the State's Board of Elections, after two Sessions discussing this problem, change the Voter Registration Form for 2019.









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