Unite NY in the News: Let NYC voters decide on nonpartisan elections
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The New York Daily News editorial board recently highlighted Unite NY and the push for open primaries in New York City.
In a city like New York, in which the Democratic primary is most often the only election that matters, nonpartisan elections make sense to give all registered voters a full slate of choices, building on the momentum of our ranked-choice primaries.
As it stands, only registered party voters can participate, locking out voters who are unaffiliated or enrolled in other parties. So, come general election time, the choice has largely already been made for them.
Most peer U.S. cities already have nonpartisan elections, and there’s no reason for New York not to join them other than to preserve the vestiges of our machine politics system and to shut out more than a million voters from meaningful participation.
Read the full article here.
