It's Primary Day - Do You Know If Yours is Open or Closed??

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Editorial: Independents: The 3rd way (EDITORIAL Albany OR Democrat Herald ) The Independents have grown into the third-largest party since being founded in 2007. They represent a bridge across the chasm created by overly partisan politicians in the two major parties. May their number grow to the point where they become a major party too. 

OPEN PRIMARIES

• Obradovich: Why you should vote - though I don't (KATHIE OBRADOVICH, Des Moines Register) If Iowa had open primaries, I gladly would cast a ballot. But I don't want to send a false impression about partisan preferences by choosing a party today, even just long enough to vote and then switch back to "no party."
• Dynamics of Election Day: State sees uptick in nonpartisan voters (Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard - Northern CA) Both the Republican and Democratic parties hold open primaries, meaning decline-to-state voters can opt to vote in either primary, or to cast a nonpartisan ballot, which doesn't include partisan primaries. Third parties -- like the Green Party and the American Independent Party -- hold closed primaries, meaning only party members can cast ballots in their primaries.
• Voters should see sunny skies on Election Day (Kimball Payne, Daily Press - VA) Virginia holds open primaries, so all registered voters can vote in today's Republican primary elections.
• Private parties - Political parties should be allowed to make own rules, forced to pay own bills (Spartenburg Herald Journal - NC) The suit, filed by the state party and its Greenville chapter, alleges that South Carolina’s open primary system denies the party’s First Amendment right to free association, and it does. A similar suit was filed in the state court system by the Greenville chapter last year.
• REGION: Nonpartisan voters can choose ballots - NEARLY 1 IN 4 VOTERS REGISTERED 'DECLINE TO STATE' (By EDWARD SIFUENTES, North County Times CA)

PROP 14

• California Proposition 14 and Baneful Effects of Party (POSTED BY NANCY HANKS, The Moderate Voice)
• SurveyUSA Poll Shows Proposition 14 Will Pass (Ballot Access News) With comments by and in response to California-based IndependentVoice.org's Jason Olson
• Giving California A Moderate Voice (POSTED BY PETER J. ORVETTI, The Moderate Voice)
• Proposition 14 (Chris Weigant, Huffington Post)
• DAILY KOS ATTACKS CAIVN (by Ryan Jaroncyk, CAIVN) See below
• California “Independent” Voter Project (CAIVP/CAIVN) Exposed as FRAUD (by Pragmatus, Daily Kos) Note: 

NEW YORK

• Top Queens Republican Is Said to Be Mired in an Inquiry Into Bloomberg Campaign Funds (By DAVID W. CHEN, NY Times) Mr. Bloomberg paid the state Independence Party, whose endorsement he had won, $1.2 million last year.
• Ex-Silver Pointer Wins Third-Party Nomination In N.Y. (FIN Alternatives: Hedge Fund and Private Equity News) Former hedge fund and private equity executive Harry Wilson got a much-needed boost to his campaign to be New York’s next state comptroller this weekend, winning the backing of the Independence Party.