If you're a regular reader of this blog:
1) Thanks! Both of you!
2) You may remember that I recently referred to that whole inbroglio from 2006, stemming from Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Carl Romanelli's attempts to get on the ballot.
Well, apparently it's not over. Here's a news release I got today from the state Green Party.
I always end up doing a double-take at this time of year. OK, in tomorrow's primary, I'm going to vote for ... Wait a second! I'm not voting for anybody. Because I can't.
I'm registered as an independent. That's for professional reasons. When I moved to York, I knew that I'd be covering politics, and I didn't want anybody to be able to accuse me of bias on the basis of my voter registration.
People still accuse me of bias all the time, of course. But since liberals and conservatives tend to level that accusation in more-or-less equal amounts, I figure I'm doing a pretty good job of keeping partisanship out of my writing.
Pennsylvania has a closed primary system, meaning you have to be registered in a certain party to vote in its primary. And even though it would benefit me personally if the state government changed that, I don't think they should.
A few weeks back, I stopped by the county elections office to check out the voter registration rolls in advance of the primary this month.
The gist of the story I wrote was how the Republicans who changed their registration to Democrat before last year's presidential race didn't appear to be changing back.
But to tell you the truth, what I really get a kick out of is checking out all the different ways that York County residents choose to register. Some of them are downright surreal.
