About half of the people I spoke to at today's Bernie rally (out of ~50) were ineligible to vote in the NY primary for one reason or another
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@mtracey It's not disenfranchising for party members to choose their own nominee. -
@TaritaC The deadline to switch registration in NY was last October. That's effectively disenfranchisement. - 5 more replies
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@mtracey I went in person to the board of elections in Nassau and told the DMV sent most of the March 25th registrations as "too late" -
@Max_atm Not sure I follow... - 3 more replies
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@mtracey Pouting because you don't get to make the rules, eh?#NewToThisVotingThing -
@livecut Calling attention to an undue burden imposed by the state on voting access is "pouting." Nice attitude. - 2 more replies
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@j_lajara Right, that's the most disenfranchising aspect.
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@mtracey i tried to change to vote in this primary in jan - well before the deadline - and was told it won't take effect till november :^) -
@Lubchansky The deadline to switch registrations for the purposes of the April primary was October! That's what's so ridiculous. - 3 more replies
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@mtracey Caucuses disenfranchise more than any other system. -
@warnock135 I'm not a fan of caucuses, but NY's election law governing primary participation is the most stringent in the country. - 1 more reply
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@mtracey How? -
@jedbettman Scroll through my feed for preliminary thoughts. I'll write out something longer soon.
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@mtracey I don't have a problem with closed primaries since I think it's fine for members of their own party to pick their own nominee. -
@mtracey on the other hand, the October deadline to change parties is ridiculous. But nothing is as bad as caucuses. - 3 more replies
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@mtracey Democrats should pick the Democratic nominee. That's not disenfranchisement.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mtracey@JonathanCohn Closed primaries actually make sense to me. The idea is for each party to choose who to put forward in the general. -
@NYCJulieNYC@mtracey I disagree with closed primaries because they say that if you're not a member of a party, you have no say in who is - 1 more reply
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