New York needs open primaries now — and not for the reason you might think. Open primaries would enfranchise more than a million New York voters, who are disproportionately young and represent ...

New York has a primary problem. Too many elections are decided in low-turnout, closed partisan primaries, which are disproportionately dominated by special interests — especially in odd-year local ...

Almost a million California voters signed petitions circulated by Democratic State Controller Steve Westly and Republican Richard Riordan to put the Voter Choice Open Primary Act on November-s ballot.

A proposal to switch New York City to an open primary system — allowing voters in any party to take part in the first round of elections — will not be added to this November’s ballot, the head of the ...

The New York Working Families Party is considering suing the charter revision commission convened by New York City Mayor Eric Adams if it puts a proposal to switch to a nonpartisan “jungle” primary ...

Many voters are left out of the Oregon's primary elections, but a multipartisan effort aims to open the state's primaries ...