And now here it is, almost 4:30 am, wide awake with a sick feeling in my stomach and a raging headache. This country is so corrupt that I honestly don't think there's any chance to change beer off the highway to self destruction that it's on. Boy, do I hope that I'm wrong.

I also feel like it's either revolution or self-destruction.

Not surprised AT ALL.

corruption!

...the New York Democratic Party ....revised the rule for terminating party membership due to inactivity...such that party membership would lapse (and party affiliation changed to, you guessed it, 'Independent' or 'Inactive') if a member did not participate in any two consecutive election cycles, including non-federal, non-state election cycles.

There was little publicity surrounding this rule change. Consequently, millions of Democratic voters who voted last in 2012 (like, say Millennials voting for Obama) had their party affiliations switched without notification. Without notification that is unless you had donated to the Hillary campaign or one of her supporting superPACs in which case you received a kindly email or letter from a Hillary PAC notifying you to reset your party affiliation before the October deadline.--from the OP (my emphasis)

I had not doubt they'd play such games. After all, bush/rover did, so why not.

Sun's coming up. Heading to bed to shorten my misery. (Optimistic, I know.)

Obama made a deal in 2008 that it's gonna be her turn 8 years later, and that's why they had DWS as chair of the coronation committee. They've been planning for this for years, and we were in denial as to just how far both parties have been corrupted.

I have to wonder if the Democrats in other states did this as well. What about Pennsylvania? Someone needs to look into that pronto (though sadly it may be too late).

These are Rove-style tactics that I thought I'd never see in the Democratic party.

Well, looks like the old saying of "I didn't leave the ___ Party, it left me," is beginning to apply to me.


Cher

That, of course, was a silly thing to think, and life straightened out my understanding.

This rule change is authoritarian and seems just like the back room kaniving behavior we'd expect from DWS & Co. It's a poorly thought out authoritarian application of power to manipulate the primary process.

Voters can be expected to react in a typically human way: they will take offense when party rules disenfranchise them, and they'll distance themselves from the thing that hurt them. Nothing screams for change like broadly recognized mistreatment and disaffection.

That's not a good thing for a party that's already shrinking. It's especially not good for a party where half the voting base seems to think the organization has gone far astray and needs a political revolution's worth of reform.

I sure hope DWS and Co do not get away with this. I am furious!

in NYC those numbers went down by a few thousand in each borough over the last few months, so I don't think anything could have occured on a mass scale. I did notice the number of inactive Democrats had gone up, however.

I'm a committee member, and I wasn't aware of this. Not to say I don't believe it, but I'd like to see when this was enacted. Thanks!

from this day forward.

or at least it used to be. I always vote period. No matter how local,
school board stuff, whatever.

Bernie's also, I wonder?

if you had not voted in the past presidential race. So they changed it without notifying people. That's insane.
How about the postcard that they mail to you with your voter registration at least once a year? What did it have?
They easily could have done it with these "inactive" voters.

I really want to know when this happened. Thanks!