Democratic Party to help elect the most moderate or conservative Democratic candidates in the upcoming primaries for Congress and state Senate., there is no deadline for re-enrolling in a political party for the Aug. 23 primary, which means voters can change their party registration at the voting booth on primary day by filling out an affidavit ballot.
“I’m speaking to Republican leaders about this issue. We’ve created an opportunity for Republicans to elect moderate Democrats,” said former longtime“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Right now New York City is a wrecking ball and in a downward spiral.”, who has helped bankroll the city Republican Party and ran for mayor in 2013, said GOPers should consider crossing over and crashing the Democratic party primaries to try to make a difference.
“We have to elect common-sense Democrats in the primaries,” said Catsimatidis, whose daughter, Andrea, is chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party. Because of the huge enrollment advantage, the Democratic primaries determine who will be the next congressperson or legislator in most parts of the city.But there are also about 1 million city registered voters who are listed as “blank” or not affiliated with a party — a much larger number than Republicans — who can also re-enroll as Democrats or Republicans before or on primary day.
In what is expected to be a very low turnout during a primary election held in late August, a few thousand or even a few hundred party crashers or newly registered Democrats could tilt an election.In the newly drawn 12th Congressional District taking in the east and west side of Manhattan, eastsider
That's why I was registered as a D for all the 40 years I lived in NYC: I knew the Democrat would nearly always win, so I thought I could at least try to help pick the 'least worst' of the D choices by voting in the primaries. I might as well have been shouting up a drainpipe.