Thread: Arpaio Arrests Obama For Being Illegal Immigrant?

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

I heard Debbie Wasserman Schultz say that the Democratic Party was the home for minorities. So does that mean that if you are not a minority and are a registered Democrat that you are really a DINO?

Miss Sherry said "DINO"

Yes Steve, I said DINO. Here in California if you are a Independent you cannot vote in the Republican or Democrat Primary so you have to be either a RINO or a DINO. DINO seems appropriate since old time non-progressive Democrats like Dinosaurs are becoming extinct.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

Yes Steve, I said DINO. Here in California if you are a Independent you cannot vote in the Republican or Democrat Primary . . .

California No Party Preference Information
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Voting in the Upcoming June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election

If you are a voter who has declined to provide a political party preference (formerly known as a "decline to state" voter), you may be able to vote for a Presidential candidate of a specific party in the upcoming June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election. Each political party has the option of allowing people who register to vote without stating a political party preference to vote in their primary election.

Political parties have until 135 days prior to an election to notify the Secretary of State whether they will allow voters who have declined to provide a political party preference to vote the ballot of that individual party.

If you wish to vote in the primary election of a political party that allows voters who have not stated a political party preference to vote in their primary, simply ask your county elections office or ask a poll worker at your polling place for a ballot from that political party. You may not request more than one party's ballot.

If you do not request such a ballot, you will be given a nonpartisan ballot, containing only the names of candidates for voter-nominated offices and local nonpartisan offices and measures to be voted upon at the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election.

No Party Preference Information - Elections & Voter Information - California Secretary of State

California's current "modified" closed primary system for Presidential elections was chaptered on September 29, 2000 and took effect on January 1, 2001. Senate Bill 28 (Ch. 898, Stats. 2000) implemented a "modified" closed primary system that permitted voters who had declined to provide a political party preference (formerly known as "decline to state" voters) to participate in a primary election if authorized by an individual party's rules and duly noticed by the Secretary of State.

The problem is it is up to the party. In the last Presidential Primary in California the Republican Party did not permit "decline to state" voters to participate in their primary election.