Yesterday, CR reported that the deadline to change party registration for registered voters in New York State was in October of last year.
| Strict voter registration rules for New York's primary could end up badly hurting Donald Trump. Voters previously unaffiliated with a political party were required to register with a party before Oct. 9th of last year in order to vote in this year's primary. |
These rules mean that at least two of Donald Trump's four adult children will be unable to vote for their father in New York on April 19th. Yahoo News recently reported, that Ivanka and Eric Trump are not registered in a political party in New York State.
| Donald Trump’s three oldest children have campaigned with their father and served as surrogates during the presidential race. But only one of them is actually a member of the party Trump hopes to lead. |
Records from the New York State Board of Elections show that neither Ivanka Trump nor Eric Trump is enrolled in a political party. Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is a Republican.
This means that both Ivanka and Eric cannot vote for their father in New York's closed Republican primary on April 19, 2016. They missed the deadline to register to do so. Only Republicans can vote in the New York primary. This is another planning setback for the Trump campaign. Just today the campaign handed out multiple rounds of delegate slates in Colorado that listed the wrong numbers on the ballots. Colorado's convention uses a fill in the bubble system that lists numbers but not names, for electronic tallying.
Trump did score delegates in Michigan today though, and joined with Kasich to shut Cruz out of rules committee seats.
If Trump is one vote under 50 percent in New York on April 19th, then Ivanka and Eric will have been the difference in him winning all the statewide delegates.
