Do all Americans of voting age have to register their allegiance to a particular party?
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Brian I
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No. We don't HAVE to register. Voting is a right and a privilige but we don't have to use it.
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You can register as an independent, or as a member of a myriad of political parties. I believe you can also fill in your party next to the 'other' box or you can decline to state. You only have to vote for your own party during a primary in which you nominate a member of your party for an office. You can change your political affiliation as many times as you want. Or you can not register at all and not vote.
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NO. Registration is voluntary and optional, as is joining any particular party. Unfortunately, many people never register or vote or only do so for presidential elections.
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In Kansas, you have to declare your party affiliation when registering, and then in the primary elections (which choose the Democrat and Republican which will run in the final race) you only get the ballot for that party. So my wife & I and others register as Republicans so that we can vote against the more nauseating Republicans.
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No, in the main elections you can vote for whomever you wish. Before the main election we have a primary election choosing which candidate from each party was going to run. In Michigan, you could vote in whichever primary you wished, regardless of weather or not you were registered in that party, but you could only vote in one primary. I am not a straight ticket voter, so I would choose a few of the candidates I liked from one of the parties that were involved in a close race and vote in that primary. It is also important to vote in the primaries because they still have tax proposals and city initiatives to vote on.
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you say your affiliation, with independent being an option which is basically neither party, you arnt forced to vote with your party im thinking its merely a way of keeping tabs of our citizens affiliation
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No. US citizens are only required to declare party allegiance to vote in primary elections in some states. US citizens do not have to declare a party to vote in regular elections. US citizens are not required to vote - so are not even required to register period.
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