A confusing voter registration issue could cost Bernie Sanders potential votes in the upcoming California primaries. The far-right American Independent Party has its name on California ballots and independent voters wishing to vote for the Democratic presidential hopeful might have inadvertently registered with the extremist anti-liberal party. They need to change their registration forms soon otherwise their votes will not be counted. Despite the obscurity of the far-right group, currently 3% of Californians are registered with the American Independent Party (AIP). Sputnik reports: “Some independent voters have unwittingly registered for a far-right extremist group that goes by the name of the American Independent Party,” Robert Cruickshank, senior campaign manager for Democracy for America, a progressive group supporting Sanders, told AlterNet. “That party was founded to support the racist, segregationist George Wallace during his campaign for president all the way back in 1968. It stays on the ballot only because voters sometimes choose it when they register, thinking they’re registering as an independent.” This could be a major blow to the Senator, as independents strongly favor Sanders. This week’s poll from NBC News|SurveyMonkey found that in head-to-head matchups between Sanders and Donald Trump, the Senator wins by an overwhelming 52% to the former reality television star’s 30%. In [...]