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I am also reg­is­tered as a NPP vot­er (No Par­ty Pref­er­ence) and for sim­i­lar rea­sons. It turns out the ter­mi­nol­o­gy mat­ters in Cal­i­for­nia. Beware lest you acci­den­tal­ly become reg­is­tered as a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Inde­pen­dent Par­ty. Hap­pened to me, briefly.

Con­fes­sions of an evan­gel­i­cal pas­tor reg­is­tered as an inde­pen­dent vot­er

I first attend­ed an evan­gel­i­cal church in the late 1970s. I was born again by the end of the decade at age 13. I began to pay atten­tion to pol­i­tics, with an eye on how they played out in the church. B…