Congressman Clay Aiken?

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18. Here's the current registration form:

http://www.ncsbe.gov/ncsbe/Portals/0/FilesP/NCVRRegFormv102013eng.pdf

Note the language: If you indicate a political party that is not currently qualified, or you do not indicate a choice, you will be listed as "Unaffiliated"

I've registered hundreds and hundreds of voters down here in recent years, and in my experience hardly anyone ever spontaneously identifies as "unaffiliated": most unaffiliated voters, who haven't heard the official list of qualified parties, will call themselves independents. They can, if they want, write "independent" in the "other" blank, but if you explain the situation to them, nearly all will accept "unaffiliated"

Aiken has been no different than everyone else in this usage, as far as I can tell: ... Aiken .. said he was once a registered independent voter ...

Of course, he apparently won the primary two weeks ago, and his opponent is now deceased, so the matter is resolved, and I will regard him as a Democrat