Keep NYC open primary off this year’s ballot

Keep NYC open primary off this year’s ballot

This November, New Yorkers could be asked to vote on a ballot proposal to “open” NYC’s local primaries to all voters regardless of political affiliation. The idea may sound simple, but the commission tasked with evaluating these reforms has embraced the concept without doing the important work to understand how it would function — or whether it would actually benefit voters. Opening our primaries is an incredibly complex effort that requires tho…