Four years ago, unaffiliated independent voters were promised they could vote in the closely watched Democratic race for the White House. Instead, they were handed a ballot without any presidential candidates.
Voters in Sherman Oaks line up at their polling place in a neighbor's garage to cast their ballots in the California presidential primary on June 6, 2016.
In the days leading up to California’s primary three years ago, the complaints from unaffiliated independent voters started pouring in. Theythey could vote in the closely watched Democratic race for the White House, but were handed a ballot without any presidential candidates. That shouldn’t happen again next year, if a new proposal making its way through the Legislature has its intended effect.“There seemed to be a misunderstanding,” Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez said of what happened in 2016. “So we know what’s coming.”The confusion stems from state election law that differs from the rules laid out by the Democratic National Committee, which allows unaffiliated independent voters in California to participate in that party’s presidential primary.
The notifications would go to voters registered with parties, but were inspired by the many reports of independent “no party preference” voters who failed to request special ballots in time to vote in the June 2016 primary between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton went on to a resounding victory. A group of Sanders supporters,
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