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Commissioner Leila Bozorg questions Susan Lerner on the feasibility of achieving consensus on open primaries with more time
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Commissioner Leila Bozorg asks Susan Lerner why she believes more time would lead to consensus on open primary reform, given the existing research and varied viewpoints already presented.
Susan Lerner replies that no one has actively tried to build consensus yet, and it requires engaging with organizations currently opposed or uninformed about the specifics of different open primary models.
Leila Bozorg
0:48:30
ask one question?
0:48:31
Ms.
0:48:32
Lerner, I'm curious your thoughts on, do you think with more time we actually could get to consensus?
0:48:38
We've heard a lot of testimony on different viewpoints of different types of open primaries, and there has been a lot of research about the different types that we've had the opportunity to read and assess.
0:48:50
So I'm curious what makes you believe we actually could get to consensus with more time.
Susan Lerner
0:48:54
Because nobody has actually tried to build a consensus.
0:48:58
We do have the experience of doing that with ranked choice voting.
0:49:01
We know it takes time.
0:49:02
We know it requires engaging, to begin with, the 27 organizations that now are on record as being against the concept of open primary.
Kathryn Wylde
0:49:13
Those organizations have been on record against open primaries for twenty years plus.