Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:01:39 -0700
From: rsrchsoc@ionet.net ("John Wilde")
Subject: Re: [lpaz-discuss] register independent?
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Right now you are wrong. And up to this point the statute has been found to be
valid. There was a distinction between the other state laws that were declared
unconstitutional by those two cases. I don't remember the distinction.
Because I haven't dealt with it in detail myself. A few others did and they
can tell you why it stood up to a challenge.
g'day
John Wilde
Richard Winger wrote:
> Under two US Supreme Court decisions, any qualified political party is
> always free to decide for itself, whether to let independents vote in its
> primary or not. State law cannot trump the right of parties to decide this
> for themselves. No matter what Az. law says, any qualified party in Az. is
> always free to bar independents from its primary if it wants to. So maybe
> it's not a good idea to register "independent".
>
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