Then, there are the half a million voters who are mostly registered with a third party - the American Independent Party - by mistake. They can only request a party ballot if the party allows them to. This includes more than 5.6 million voters who are registered No Party Preference. The case has been filed with the Supreme Court.Ĭurrently, millions of California voters have to navigate a complex and restrictive semi-closed presidential primary process that caused widespread confusion, frustration, and disenfranchisement in the 2016 presidential primaries. The case was dismissed by a federal district court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling that voters do not have a fundamental right to vote in primary elections in New Jersey until they join a party. On the legal side, IVP - leading a nonpartisan coalition of individual plaintiffs and organizations - challenged New Jersey’s closed primary process in federal court in 2014, making a pretty simple argument: you shouldn’t have to join a party to vote. It is also worth mentioning that San Diego has more voters than many states. Both the citywide ( Measures K, 2016) and countywide ( Measure D, 2018) passed with around 60% of the vote.
The organization also started a series of reforms in San Diego when it authored and submitted a reform that removed a simple loophole that allowed incumbent candidates to get elected in a primary and skip the general election altogether. This faced opposition from both major parties, but was defeated by record-setting turnout from independent voters. IVP wrote the nonpartisan top-two open primary in California, which was approved by voters under Proposition 14 (2010).
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