time to print some new forms.

I just read a post that said 25% of New Yorkers are independents voters who will not be able to participate in the primary because they didn't change their affiliation in time. There is a petition to try and change this.


http://www.openprimariesny.nyc

PLEASE NOTE THIS LINK IS FROM LAST OCTOBER:

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/06/democracy_bureacracy.php

snip
When your lawmakers spend their days doing the bidding of developers and large corporations, and only sometimes get arrested for it, it can be easy to forget that we live in a democracy. Even easier to forget: though the presidential primary is not until April 19th of next year, the deadline for changing one's party is this Friday.

An obscure bit of election law (Section 5-304) requires voters to change their party enrollment prior to the registration deadline for the general election in November the year before the primary, giving New York the earliest change-of-party deadline of the 11 U.S. states with a closed primary system. New York is also the only state among those 11 where the deadline doesn't fall within the same calendar year as the primary.

NY State Board of Elections spokesman Tom Connolly couldn't pinpoint when the rule went into effect, but said he believed it was created to discourage "party raiding," where activists from one party change affiliation en masse to screw with an opposing party's primary results.
snip

isn't it? But this one is only for 'new' voters, so it's time to scour the high schools and colleges in the area.