Featuring: Lisa Rice (Make All Votes Count DC), Sondra Cosgrove (Vote Nevada), Bob Perls (New Mexico Open Elections) & Dr. Jessie Fields (Open Primaries Board Member & Spokesperson, NYC)

Hosted by: John Opdycke

Fighting to open primaries and let all voters vote is a complicated task–it breaks all the conventional rules and challenges the partisan lens that we often view issues through. For some time, the national narrative has been that the Democratic Party is the party of expanded access to the ballot box and the end of voter suppression in all its forms. But, it’s often been the Democratic Party and its leadership that has taken the lead in opposing primary reform and refused to acknowledge, let alone champion, the rights of independent voters.

On Tuesday October 24th at 2pm ET, Open Primaries will host our next Virtual Discussion: Fighting for Open Primaries in Democratic Party Strongholds: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly where we’ll bring together open primaries leaders from Washington DC (Lisa Rice, Make All Votes Count DC), Nevada (Sondra Cosgrove, Vote Nevada), New Mexico (Bob Perls, New Mexico Open Elections) and New York (Dr. Jessie Fields, Open Primaries National Spokesperson) to talk about their experiences working to enact meaningful primary reform in areas where the Democratic Party has an outsized influence.