Report: Up to 500K Californians may be blocked from voting

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CNN)Nearly half a million California voters may be unable to participate in the state's presidential primaries on June 7 as a result of confusion in the voter registration process, a Los Angeles Times investigation has discovered.
Hundreds of thousands of Californians who intended to register as independents may have accidentally registered instead with the ultra-conservative American Independent Party (AIP), which opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and calls for building a fence along the entire U.S. border.
The LA Times reports that "a majority of (AIP) members have registered with the party in error," and that "nearly 3-in-4 people did not realize they had joined the party" after surveying registered members.

The Times had a team of Republican and Democratic pollsters contact a list of 500 AIP members, obtained through a public records request, who determined that "fewer than 4% could correctly identify their own registration as a member of the American Independent Party."

I did this many years ago until I started getting rw material in the mail. I finally realized what I had done and switched to "no party preference".
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/politics/los-angeles-times-registration-investigation/index.html