Just 28,000 voters can make political history and materially change the balance of power in Delaware, simply by changing their current registration to the Independent Party of Delaware.

For the First Time in American history, Delaware would become the First State to have a competitive 3rd 'Major Party'.

This would enable a problem-solving alternative to the entrenched closed-loop special interest driven Democrat vs Republican duopoly currently in power at public expense.

According to the Delaware Election Code, a political party with a minimum of 5% of total statewide voter registration is classified as a major political party, thereby enabling it to nominate candidates through primary elections, and independent voters to vote in independent primaries. [15 Del. C. §101 (15) and § 3301A]

This crucial paradigm shift in party registration would eliminate their last incentive over the general electorate that keeps voters in their ranks: systematic large-scale exclusion of independent voters from primary elections. [15 Del. C. § 3301A]

To further reveal the legally structured inequity of the current system, political parties are permitted to set and charge candidates exorbitant filing fees in order to gain primary ballot status. Said filing fees are duly collected by the Delaware Department of Elections from candidates upon filing for office and subsequently conveyed to the Democratic and Republican parties. [15 Del. C. § 3106 (a) (1) (b)] Currently, the State of Delaware fully bears the cost of Democratic and Republican primary elections at public expense, while it still requires minor parties to hold nominating conventions at their expense. This statutory double standard raises constitutional equal protection issues.

A sudden shift of 28,000 voters to the Independent Party of Delaware (IPoD) would serve to partially eliminate this inequity by having a third column on the primary ballot without requiring candidates to pay high filing fees, as the IPoD is based upon free ballot access, setting its filing fees at $0. [15 Del. C. § 3103 (a) (3)]

After all, a political party is essentially an organization of registered voters dedicated to electing candidates according to pre-stated common political philosophies. Voters have legal and constitutional rights to form political parties as warranted by political environments. In the event that the so-called “major” political parties fail to serve the electorate at-large by their actions and ideologies, it is the legal right and moral duty of citizens to form new parties and/or withdraw from old parties in the greater public interest. The power to effect political change has not been fully realized by the voters.
[Delaware Constitution: Article 1, sections 3, 5 and 16]

Each voter gives a political party a personal share of power proportional to the total number of voters upon registration. WE therefore call upon 28,000 brave voters to register with the Independent Party of Delaware to create an effective dynamic popular alternative to dysfunctional and bipolar special interest-controlled politics as usual.

- credit, Wolf von Baumgart