Comment Re:you have to register for a party? (Score 1) 250
you do not, you can choose to declare yourself repub, dem etc... i am independent. but the reason is so that you reg with a party is so that you can vote in the primary, as in voting inside your party for the candidate you want to nominate, as opposed to just voting for the party to fill the position.
as for the pre reg it is due to two things:
one there are a lot of votes that need to be counted, more than in any other public election on earth, and that is only with 50% turn out.
so there needs to be allot of prep
two. it is not done at the federal level, this stems from our history that started with us being a collection of semi independent states, and trusting it to be handled at the federal level want something they wanted, and people can always be suspicious of an election that is run by those in the election.
as for the pre reg it is due to two things:
one there are a lot of votes that need to be counted, more than in any other public election on earth, and that is only with 50% turn out.
so there needs to be allot of prep
two. it is not done at the federal level, this stems from our history that started with us being a collection of semi independent states, and trusting it to be handled at the federal level want something they wanted, and people can always be suspicious of an election that is run by those in the election.
