Opinion: We pay but we can’t play: Independent voters are stuck financing two party primaries that won’t let us participate
6.28.2022
Unite New York founder Martin Babinec writes that New York’s closed primary system disenfranchises the state’s 3.5 million independent voters by barring these taxpayers from publicly-funded primary elections.
“Unaffiliated voters like me — and 3.5 million other New Yorkers — are on the sidewalk holding the bill while New York’s politicians stage not one, but two summer primary elections allowing entrenched political parties to choose their candidates while freezing out independent voices.”
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