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Clarification on nonpartisan primaries versus other election reform models
0:40:45
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Commissioner Anita Laremont asks Richard Fox, a volunteer with the organization Open Primaries, to clarify his preference between open primaries and single-round ranked-choice voting.
Fox explains he advocates for nonpartisan primaries, where all voters can participate in a single primary election, which could be a single election overall, rather than the specific policy some might term "open primaries."
Anita Laremont
0:40:45
I had a question that related to what we heard previously about, you know, advocating for either, single round ranked choice voting or open primaries, which are different things.
0:40:59
And you talked about open primaries.
0:41:01
And can you at at all give us some sense of why you think that that's preferable to a single round?
Richard Fox
0:41:09
So I actually was advocating for nonpartisan primaries.
0:41:13
Open primaries is the organization that I'm with.
0:41:16
So I'm advocating for nonpartisan primaries.
0:41:18
So that would mean that just all different parties, independents can all vote in one election.
0:41:26
This doesn't specify whether it will be only one election.
0:41:29
It could be primaries in general.
0:41:32
Personally, I think one election would be better, as gentleman before mentioned, but nonpartisan would be the route to go.
0:41:39
I think I think open primaries would you know, obviously, that's the organization name, but as a policy, open primaries is different.
0:41:46
I don't think that would go as well as nonpartisan.
0:41:48
Thank you.