Andy Sternberg reports:

Californians who choose not to register as a red, blue, or third-party voter — “Decline to State” voters — comprise nearly one-fifth of the state’s registered voters according to the Secretary of State’s office. That’s a 50 percent increase in voters registered “Decline to State” compared to the same point in the 2000 election cycle, according to California voter registration data. (In the 1999 survey of registered voters 46 percent were registered Dems, 35 percent Republicans; in 2007, those numbers are 43 and 34, respectively.)

But Decline to State or unaffiliated voters will not necessarily be allowed to participate in the February 5th California primary. Why?

The California Republican Party decided only to accept ballots cast by registered Republicans for next year’s presidential primary.