Super Tuesday, and I Can't Participate
February 5th, 2008 (05:43 am)
One thing I dislike about is registration limits for the primary. It's a closed primary, and that's fine, but what doesn't make sense to me is party switching. The deadline to register for a party if you aren't registered to vote is January 11th, which is roughly around where all the other states set their deadlines to switch parties as well. Not New York. Here the deadline to switch parties if you are a registered voter is all the way back around October 25th! Why are these not administratively equal tasks?
Of course I'm only annoyed about this because when I had decided to register for a party and support a primary candidate this year it was October 26th. Is this to punish those of us who decide to have no party affiliation?