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TESTIMONY

Testimony by Yvonne Murray, Member of the Public, on open primaries and voter suppression of independents

1:43:20

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3 min

Yvonne Murray, an independent voter for over forty years and a Brooklyn resident, expresses her concerns about New York City's elections and appeals to the commission to put open primaries on the ballot. She explains she changed her party affiliation from Democrat because she felt overlooked and taken for granted, and as a Black American, finds it appalling to be denied the right to participate in elections she pays for simply because she is an independent.

Murray views this as voter suppression and notes that 1.1 million independents are being discriminated against. As a poll worker since the nineties, she has witnessed firsthand independents being turned away from the ballot.