Open Primaries
Mission:
- Voting, Elections & Policy
Open Primaries mission is to advocate for open and nonpartisan primary systems, counter efforts to impose closed primaries, educate voters, train and support spokespeople, and participate in the building of local, state and national open primaries coalitions
Contact
John Opdycke
jopdycke@openprimaries.org
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
On-Demand
Algorithms & Anachronisms: How New Tech & Old Politics are Holding Us Back
In May, social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt wrote a devastating critique of social media practices and how they’re undermining and sabotaging American democracy. Although Haidt concedes that political polarization long predates the rise of social media platforms, he believes that the tools of virality—Facebook’s Like and Share buttons, Twitter’s Retweet function etc.—have algorithmically and irrevocably corroded…