2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Report from my precinct in New York City [View all]all american girl
(1,788 posts)The people of New York, within the Democratic party (I think that's who decides, but I could be wrong) need to change it. I realize there are those that don't want to be part of the party, so I'm thinking, they may have to find a different avenue to see if they can change to an open or semi-open primary. I did say that I thought Oct was ridiculous, meaning that I think it should be way closer to the primary date. Here's the deal, these "rules" have been in place for ever. I'm not sure why this primary everyone is up in arms. I don't remember this 8 years ago.
I, also believe, that voting should be easy as possible...I never said I didn't, but I stand by what I said. Voters have a responsibility to make sure they are squared away to vote. And yes, if things are not to your liking (closed primary), make sure you are reading to vote, and then do something about for the next time.
Here's the thing that must be remembered, the individual states decide how they are going to run there primaries. So if a state wants it closed (and I'm thinking with New York, they may have had very good reasons in the past) they can do that. This is for Democrats to decide who will be their Democratic presidential candidate. There have been others, many, closed primary states before this one...Iowa, Colorado, Alaska...just to name a few.