2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why closed primaries are undemocratic [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Voter ID when there really is no such fraud. NY has the lowest turnout among blue States and is regularly in the bottom five of all States for turnout. There are a variety of reasons for that.
My State, Oregon, has a closed Primary and we regularly get some of the best turnout in the country, very easily double NY's crappy ass turnout. And that's true in non Primary elections as well, NY hardly votes in midterms, in local elections.
In the 1950's NYC had 92% turnout for mayoral election. Last time it was 24%. Not good.
In a State in which fewer than 30% of the people can manage to vote at all, it is very hard to believe there are significant numbers of people committed enough to do 'cross party tomfoolery'. They don't even vote in their own Parties. Apathy is the NY state of mind, not activism. But you fear 'tomfoolery' which you can't demonstrate.
In the current cycle, only Louisiana has had turnout wore than NY's.