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TESTIMONY
Testimony by Mike Tagariello, Volunteer from Veterans For All Voters, on the independent voter experience and support for nonpartisan primaries
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Mike Tagariello, a volunteer with Veterans For All Voters and an independent voter, testifies in his first such public speaking experience about the need for nonpartisan primaries.
He describes the feeling of most electoral decisions being made before he, as an independent, can vote in the general election.
Tagariello expresses that it feels wrong for a fraction of voters to determine outcomes and hopes to vote on a proposal for nonpartisan primaries.
Mike Tagariello
1:25:04
Hello, Richard.
1:25:06
I'm Mike Tagriel, and I wanna help you on pronouncing my name correctly.
Richard Buery
1:25:09
Thank you, man.
1:25:09
I have so you have no idea how much anxiety I have with.
Carl Weisbrod
1:25:15
Thank you.
Richard Buery
1:25:16
Thank you for that.
1:25:17
Appreciate
Mike Tagariello
1:25:18
Like like a few other people here today, this is my first time speaking at a function of this sort, so I thank you very much for this time.
1:25:25
I'm here with Veterans Fall Voters, and I've lived in New York for ten years.
1:25:30
During that time, I vote.
1:25:32
I vote early.
1:25:33
Unfortunately, I vote early at the general election, and I'm an independent voter.
1:25:37
So I have the curious experience of walking in the ballot box and seeing most of the decisions made for me already.
1:25:44
So I really just wanna highlight that feeling of doing that and understanding that a fraction of the voters in the city are making their decisions, and that just feels wrong like other people have said here today.
1:26:02
You know, no group should have any more say in voting box than others.
1:26:06
I feel that to my heart, and that is why I'm speaking here today.
1:26:13
So I'm still gonna vote early this year again in the general election.
1:26:17
I just I hope that I I can vote for this proposal to add partisan primaries to to our voting here
Anita Laremont
1:26:25
in New York.
Richard Buery
1:26:25
Thank you.