I think we better be very carefull
here with topics here. The previous subject was "California
Open Primary Option (2002)". You are saying "California March Closed
Primary". I assume these are different
topics?
Acutally it reflects
the "half pregnant" primary. The voters voted for "open" primary in
CA., so they are still calling it "open", "slightly open", "door ajar open"
etc. From our standpoint it looks "closed" except as I was pointing
out with the "non-partisan" / "decline to state" voters. If I started
the confusion with "open" vs. "closed" I apologize.
Just to
make sure we are speaking same language here, central committee races are the
same as precinct comittee races, right? One race per
precinct?
Precinct committee races are different
races in each precinct (ala King Co.), and require a unique race ID.
Central Committee races don't change in each precinct, and generally entail a
single party slate for a county or a single "race id" throughout the
County. The big question is usually which voters are allowed to vote the
race. Sometimes parties only wants "registered" voters in their party to
vote on the race, while other parties (democrats so far) want "non-partisan"
voters to vote on the main ballot, but NOT on the central committee
race. We should therefore think of these NP voters asking for a DEM
ballot as another party category.
Don, I ask
again, who is that person. It sounds like it can be done with a vgroup1
set up for the parties, and a vgroup2 set up for "declared" and "declined to
state", but this person needs to hit the keys and find
out.
Karen Rae (was assigned by Jeff Dean) as "project
manager" for Alameda. But this is a California wide issue. Someone
should be assigned to do general testing on this. (I will assist Karen
as much as possible on Alameda touch screen
issues.)