Letter to the Editor

No party?

By Pietro S. Geraci, Chair, Orange County Libertarian Party, Newburgh
Posted 4/1/21

I was on the county Board of Elections website recently looking for information when I noticed a message on their homepage stating that previously enrolled members of the Green, Libertarian, …

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Letter to the Editor

No party?

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I was on the county Board of Elections website recently looking for information when I noticed a message on their homepage stating that previously enrolled members of the Green, Libertarian, Independence, and SAM parties are now considered No Party. Odd, when I checked my voter registration on the state database, I saw I was still registered with the Libertarian Party, not No Party. 

What kind of shenanigans does the Board of Elections seek to pull with this message? Why are they trying to convey that those of us registered in the aforementioned parties are no longer enrolled in them? We certainly still are. We may have lost automatic ballot access, but the Libertarian Party is still running candidates and still getting them on the ballot, and the Libertarian and Green Parties are suing the state to overturn the new unconstitutional automatic ballot access requirements. I am confident that we will be victorious and automatic ballot access for the four aforementioned parties will be restored. 

The message displayed on the Board of Elections homepage is nothing more than blatant propaganda intended to hoodwink voters into abandoning the parties that truly represent them and their values and joining the corrupt establishment Republicrat duopoly or their puppet parties, the Conservative and Working Families Parties.
If you are a member of the Green, Libertarian, Independence or SAM Party, DO NOT change your registration! Instead call the Board of Elections and insist they take down their false and misleading message.