Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Well Ser, to give you an example, in New York State the primaries are closed, so unless you register you cannot participate. I went ahead and registered as an indie for a simple reason; so that the politicians in my district would see that there were some independents. Letting my non-affiliation flag fly, as it were.
So other than a registered Democrat/Republican the registered Independent does not get the right to actively participate in the nomination of a candidate - but the registration rather serves the purpose tto demonstrate that you consciously did not register as Democrat/Republican as opposed to not registering because you are not interested in the whole election process anyway?

Just paraphrasing to make sure I understood it