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In reply to the discussion: 27 Percent of New York’s Registered Voters Won’t Be Able to Vote in the State’s Primary [View all]basselope
(2,565 posts)Voter ID laws are nonsense, because they protect against a nonsense issue "In person voter fraud".
Closed primaries are nonsense, because they protect against a nonsense issue, "These republicans are going to come over and mess with our primary by trying to elect our weakest candidate".
Both things RARELY happen and even when they do they have 0 impact on the actual results b/c they make up such a small % of ACTUAL votes.
If you are REALLY that scared of people voting... just have ONLY caucuses, b/c then only the most dedicated supporters turn out.
It's a stupid solution, but then so are closed primaries.
The only reason people are for them today is because they KNOW that the PEOPLE voted.. Bernie would win.
2 years ago Schumer made the case for Open Primaries in NY and pointed out exactly what was wrong with closed primaries.
Yet, despite the fact that he is supporting Hillary, his opinion on this obviously doesn't matter (and likely has changed since this primary season began).