By now, you may have heard about efforts to “excommunicate” Lieberman in his official hometown of New Haven. (That’s an odd image - a Jew being excommunicated.) Local dems upset at Lieberman’s choice to run as an independent against the Lamont want to see Lieberman’s voter registration affiliation with the Democrats rescinded.
When I first heard of the move, it seemed silly and spiteful. However, according to My Left Nutmeg, there is apparently statutory support for such a move:
Sec. 9-61. Prima facie evidence supporting discretionary erasure or exclusion. Enrollment in any other political party or organization, active affiliation with any other political party or organization, knowingly being a candidate at any primary or caucus of any other party or political organization, or being a candidate for office under the designation of another party or organization, within a period of two years prior to the date of the notice as provided in section 9-60 shall be prima facie evidence that any elector committing any such act is not affiliated with, or in good faith a member of, and does not intend to support the principles or candidates of the party upon the enrollment list of which his name appears or in which his application for enrollment is pending; and, upon reasonable proof of the commission of any one of such acts, the name of any such elector may be stricken or excluded from such list and such erasure or exclusion shall be effective for a period of two years from the date of any such act.[.]
It still seems spiteful to me. It also still seems silly, but no more silly / annoying than the overall party affiliation laws in Connecticut (especially the lack of open primaries).