Our only concern with registering at all is the fact that anybody with a few $ can buy the voter database and then use that info to spam us with political crap.

Registering also puts us into the potential jury pool, and we have been put on notice a few times, but we have never served. We don't think we would survive the jury selection process anyways.

:mike:

[QUOTE=retina;562064]So who is that registered with? I assumed from the context that it was as part of the voter registration process. But the answers above would indicate that it is something else.[/QUOTE]"Independent" usually means, "Not affiliated with either the D's or the R's."

Voters have been known to game the primary system by affiliating with the party whose candidate they would never vote for in the general election, in order to vote for the candidate they thought would be the weakest opponent in the general election.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;562068]Our only concern with registering at all ...[/QUOTE]Registering what? To vote? Your party? Both?

[QUOTE=retina;562071]Registering what? To vote? Your party? Both?[/QUOTE]Registering to vote puts you into this purchasable database.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;562069]"Independent" usually means, "Not affiliated with either the D's or the R's."[/QUOTE]Registering with who? Why do you have to register with a party at all? Just vote on the day and done.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;562072]Registering to vote puts you into this purchasable database.[/QUOTE]Registering with who? Who's database?

[QUOTE=retina;562074]Registering with who? Who's database?[/QUOTE]The county keeps the database. We don't know what it is called but we do know it can be bought.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;562075]The county keeps the database. We don't know what it is called but we do know it can be bought.[/QUOTE]Is that the DB where you have to choose an affiliation?

[QUOTE=retina;562073]Registering with who? Why do you have to register with a party at all? Just vote on the day and done.[/QUOTE]Where we live you have to choose a party affiliation. We don't agree with that at all but we want to participate in the process so we play by their rules.

The people at the poll were very aggressive in verifying our identity. We are not sure where we stand on that issue but it did strike us as weirdly aggressive. Maybe we are hyper-sensitive?

The whole process is very complicated, probably by design.

User "jvang" doesn't vote. We assume he doesn't because it is too much of a hassle.

:sad:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;562077]Where we live you have to choose a party affiliation.[/QUOTE]That is terrible.

Do you only get the three options? D, R, I? Or are there some "minor" parties there also? Can you choose "other" or "refuse the declare" or something like that? Can you choose more than one and hedge your bets?

[QUOTE=retina;562076]Is that the DB where you have to choose an affiliation?[/QUOTE]We don't know.

You physically visit the county clerk's office.
There is a card you fill out to register.
They ask you for your party.
We didn't fill that part out and they kicked the card back to us.
We then convinced them to list us as "independent" AKA "without party" AKA "dangerous".
They then enter all this stuff into a probably-not-very-secure computer database.This database can be bought for a small fee. We think it is 50 bucks.

:buddy: