2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders bashes New York election law [View all]MineralMan
(146,248 posts)I lived in Syracuse for 9 months while in the USAF, to attend a total-immersion Russian language school, but voted absentee in California that year.
Now, I live in Minnesota, which has very high turnouts in general elections. I work on GOTV where I live, not in other states. I have no input into the primary rules in New York. I assume that the Democratic Party in that state is responsible for them. I think I'll just leave their rules to the party there. We have no such restrictions here, and won't when we have primaries instead of caucuses starting in 2020. We have same day registration and do not declare our party when registering. At the primaries, we ask for the ballot we want to vote on.
Every state does it differently. States set election rules and laws.
What do I think of New York's primary rules? Not much. I don't think about them much at all. They are what they are. They are what they have been for a very long time. Apparently, they're what New Yorkers want. I can't say. I won't ever live there, I'm certain, so I'll just keep concerning myself with Minnesota's laws.