Am I an Independent? Or No Political Affiliation? Or No Political Party? Or Nonpartisan? Or No Party Affiliation? Or NPP?
Those are the various ways I appear on the Nevada Secretary of State website. Is it confusing? Yes. Did I ask to be placed on the ballot with nothing next to my name (rather than “NPP” next to my name)? Yes. But according to laws adopted by our state legislature, I must have NPP next to my name on the ballot (it could be No Political Party, but it is the election departments choice and it will only be NPP… not that No Political Party is much less confusing).
The only point I am trying to make here is that it is unnecessarily confusing due to the lack of uniformity from one form to the next (which makes it that much harder for an independent to be elected).
NRS 293.267 3a: “Immediately following the name of each candidate for a partisan office must appear the name or abbreviation of his or her political party, the words “no political party” or the abbreviation “NPP,” as the case may be.”
In my case, it will simply be NPP.
Below are screenshots taken from various places within the website (and the presidential ballot in 2016 for example).
