What Does Registering Independent Mean

WHAT IT MEANS TO Exist Contained

Four in x voters don't want to exist in a political political party. Why? Because parties have become special interests — perhaps the biggest special interests of all.

Independents become independents because we are repelled by the electric current political arrangement—past the self-dealing and arrogance of politicians and political parties. Nosotros are 43% of the country today. Many are young. Growing numbers are from the communities of color. Amongst millennials and Latinos, 50% identify as independent and 35% of African American between the ages of 18 - 34 are independent. Nosotros have been, and continue to exist, a restless engine for political and economic renewal.

Independents intendance deeply about our identity. We become by many names: "Decline to Country," "Unaligned," "No Party Preference," "Other." In states where independents are forced to join a party to vote in a primary, in that location is anger. Voters of all persuasions believe this is unfair. When people choose a political identity that is other than what the parties want, it is an act of resistance and a stride towards irresolute the partisan nature of the organization.

Issues that animate independents across the political spectrum aren't really issues in the traditional sense. They are nearly process, the manner things work. After this ballot wheel, many people became educated nigh the pitfalls of the procedure—closed primaries which locked out about 25 million voters; controlled presidential debates; the convention delegate pick rules; the electoral higher; and then forth. Independent voters became more than visible as a result. We believe that independent voters deserve respect, recognition and reform and we piece of work in every state—from the ground upward—to make that possible.

Independents have been, and continue to be, a restless engine for political and economic renewal.

OUR HISTORY / Our MISSION

While the major political parties redefined themselves in the 1980'southward and the 1990's -- via Reaganism and Clintonism -- encroaching on each other's electoral coalitions to win the White House, diverse Americans began to abrasion at the idea that the Republican and Democratic Parties reflected their aspirations for the 21st Century. The numbers of Americans who identified as independents began to grow.

During that time, independent presidential campaigns large and minor—with candidates every bit politically diverse every bit Ross Perot, Lenora Fulani, Ron Paul, and Ralph Nader—demonstrated a public appetite for political alternatives. The major parties and major media railed against these "outsider" choices, ignoring or demeaning those Americans who refused to marry with any political party. To many in the progressive wing of the independent movement, it seemed that creating a new political culture would require some unorthodox coalitions and a set of meaningful structural changes to the political process itself. The pct of independents rose to 43%. Political revolts simmered just beneath the surface.

We were initially founded in 1994 as the Committee for a Unified Independent Party ("CUIP"), to spur the creation of a new national party out of the Perot revolt. Our mission was to create a left/center/right multiracial alliance and to printing for a set of political reform principles that empowered Americans beyond ideological, racial and geographic lines.