Thread: Trump Switches Voter Registration to 'Independent'

December 23, 2011

Trump Switches Voter Registration to 'Independent'

AP
By Maggie Haberman, Politico

Donald Trump, who recently pulled out of moderating a Newsmax-sponsored GOP debate that only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum would commit to, has switched his voter registration to "independent," a source confirms.

The move was made yesterday, and will make Trump a registered "blank" — used interchangeably with "registered independent" in New York political parlance — but not right away.

A Board of Elections spokeswoman hasn't responded to a call for comment about when it would take effect, but sources familiar with the city's BoE rules say that Trump missed the cutoff allowing his registration switch to take effect for next year. This means that, while he has filed the paperwork, he can technically still vote in the GOP primary and won't become an independent until after the November 2012 general election.

http://nation.foxnews.com/donald-trump/2011/12/23/trump-switches-voter-registration-independent#ixzz1hP8Kl65i

The 2012 winner, says North Carolina elections director Gary Bartlett, will be "whoever is attractive to the unaffiliated voter."

Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves

http://www.alipac.us/threads/246440-...ties-in-droves

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