Did you see the report on CNN April 18th that said:

Hundreds of thousands of Californians who intended to register as independents may have accidentally registered instead with the ultra-conservative American Independent Party (AIP), which opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and calls for building a fence along the entire U.S. border. ...[...]… The deadline to register or change voter registration in California for the June 7 primary is on May 23. But state rules block voters who are mistakenly registered with AIP from participating in other primary contests, so voters accidentally enrolled in AIP will need to act in order to cast primary ballots.

CNN source was this Los Angeles Times Investigation reported APRIL 17

Are you an independent voter? You aren't if you checked this box The American Independent Party is California’s largest third party. A poll shows 73% may be in it by mistake. Are you one of them? ...{...}…

The Times article includes this searchable database link:

Are you a member of the American Independent Party? Find out now using California’s voter registration database.

The LA Times investigation included a survey (<— link is to the survey itself, not the article that reported the survey).

This is the poll of Amer­ic­an In­de­pend­ent Party mem­bers in Cali­for­nia con­duc­ted by a bi­par­tis­an polling team for the Los Angeles Times. Tulchin Re­search has done polling for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ pres­id­en­tial cam­paign and Smith John­son Re­search has done polling of Cali­for­nia Re­pub­lic­an voters on their pres­id­en­tial pref­er­ences. No data from this poll, con­duc­ted on a pro-bono basis for The Times, was shared with any cam­paigns.

The AIP (formal organization of California's American Independent Party) in Californiabegan in response to the 1967 presidential candidate, Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama.

1967 George Wallace button

The Times article reporting its Investigation had this anecdote:

“I think the name should be something different,” said Gail Pellerin, Santa Cruz County’s registrar of voters. “Right now, it’s misleading.” “I had a voter totally break down and cry in my lobby,” Pellerin added, recalling a young woman who wanted to vote in the 2008 Democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but couldn’t because she'd registered with the American Independent Party. “The poor thing just sobbed,” Pellerin said. “It’s very frustrating.”

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