We sit down with Jeremy, Senior VP of Open Primaries, to dig into a new IVP/Open Primaries poll of registered NYC Democrats - and what it reveals is wild. Jeremy lays out "the big lie" about open vs. closed primaries, why ~40% of NYC Democrats (and two out of three Latino Democrats) don't identify with the party they're registered in, and how a 10% turnout primary ends up deciding who actually runs the city. Then Jeremy lays out why almost everyone - the media, secretaries of state, even civil rights groups - has the importance of primaries exactly backwards.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 – Independent Voters: The Largest Group Nobody Knows

00:00:49 – Introducing Jeremy Gruber & the NYC Poll

00:01:37 – The Big Lie About Open Primaries

00:02:37 – Why Democrats Register as Democrats Without Being Democrats

00:04:27 – Low Turnout and Who Actually Wins

00:07:35 – When the System Opens But Voters Still Don't Know

00:10:01 – Two-Step Reform: Policy Change and Voter Education

00:12:33 – How the System Is Stacked Against Primary Awareness

00:15:35 – Independent Organizing and What Comes Next

00:17:59 – Open Primaries' Litigation, Wins, and Where to Follow