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These signs threaten people with
jail time if they vote in the primaries without being a “Bona Fide”
party member-even though the term is undefined. Open Primaries is supporting the lawsuit to stop this
outrageous practice.
Gabe and I took the conversation
all over the place. But we kept coming back to the issue of
“voter abuse.” Tennessee is far from alone. I talk to
people from Texas to New York, Florida to Illinois, Louisiana to
Nevada who report horror stories of trying to vote in primaries and
being related to like a criminal. No wonder so few people do
it.
Open Primaries works across the
country to enact (you guessed it) open and nonpartisan primaries of
many different forms and flavors. But at the core of
what we do is work to end the abuse that the American people are
subjected to by the political parties when it comes to making their
voices heard.
“We the people” may pay for the
primaries and the government runs them. But the parties determine who
can vote, which candidates can run (how do you think Biden
was coronated?) and debate, and what level of privacy you are
afforded as a voter.
Open Primaries is not a small technical change. It’s a call for
a wholesale reorganization so we the people can have a voting process
that doesn’t leave us feeling like garbage.
This is a big year for our growing
movement. We have seven referendums on the ballot, legislation and
litigation beyond that, and a HUGE pipeline gearing up for
2026.
We have a chance to make a real
difference this year, and we have a $200k matching gift to help us
raise funds this summer. Please give. Give more than you were planning
on. We need every dollar to fuel our
high quality person-to-person outreach across the country.
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