Election group opposes No Labels' change to Independent Party
PHOENIX — Calling the move confusing, the Citizens Clean Elections Commission wants Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to reverse — or at least delay — his decision to allow the No labels Party to be renamed the Arizona Independent Party.
In a letter to Fontes, Mark Kimble, who chairs the commission, points out that Arizona has used the word “independent’’ for years to mean people who are registered to vote but unaffiliated with any organized party.
“That understanding is consistent across polling, national election research, and everyday voter experience,’’ Kimble wrote. What allowing a party to use the word “Independent’’ will do, he said, is create the risk that people will be signed up as a member of the Arizona Independent Party when they really wanted nothing to do with any party at all.
All that is critical given Arizona’s “open primary.’’
https://www.pinalcentral.com/politics/election-group-opposes-no-labels-change-to-independent-party/article_85237271-4e13-4dd5-9307-f1ff5908fdd6.html
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