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beowabbitEarlier, in my post supporting Deval Patrick, I suggested that you needed to be registered as a Democrat in order to vote in the Democratic primary. I read something recently that says that’s not the case; you can also be registered as “unenrolled” — you just can’t actually be registered in a different party.
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lilbjorn has recommendations for Tuesday’s Democratic primary (namely: Patrick, Silbert, Bonifaz) which I intend to follow — I confess I had only been following the governor’s race. Also, cos agrees with lilbjorn’s support of Bonifaz for Secretary of the Commonwealth. It sounds like Bonifaz is not likely to win, but it also sounds like a vote for Bonifaz is a vote against vote-rigging, and this is a race where a vote of conscience does no harm, so I’ll vote against vote-rigging.
lilbjorn has recommendations for Tuesday’s Democratic primary (namely: Patrick, Silbert, Bonifaz) which I intend to follow — I confess I had only been following the governor’s race. Also, cos agrees with lilbjorn’s support of Bonifaz for Secretary of the Commonwealth. It sounds like Bonifaz is not likely to win, but it also sounds like a vote for Bonifaz is a vote against vote-rigging, and this is a race where a vote of conscience does no harm, so I’ll vote against vote-rigging.
John Bonifaz
Date: 2006-09-16 15:35 (UTC)With last week's slew of major endorsements, we may have finally gotten enough press. I think Bonifaz can win. I also think if Galvin wins but Bonifaz makes a strong showing, Galvin will be forced to acquiesce on election day registration, which he blocked last year.
We've got a bunch of Bonifaz videos up on YouTube. Here's the brief 30-second web ad:
unenrolled voters can vote!
Date: 2006-09-16 15:41 (UTC)In practice, the Republicans rarely have contested primaries for anything, except the few rare state house seats they actually win, and the Libertarians and Greens didn't have contested primaries either when they had ballot status (they don't anymore, so there are no primaries for them now). So really the Democratic primary is "the primary" around here, Democratic nominees win most offices in November, and Democrats and unenrolled voters pick our officeholders in September. That's this Tuesday.
P.S. See this story from a CT voter on the Bonifaz blog. They have closed primaries in CT. The equivalent shenanigan in MA would be to just remove people from the rolls.