Right. The Democratic primary, in many cases determines the winner over a general election. But You can have a Democratic primary where you have 3, 4, 5, 6% of New Yorkers actually wind up electing the next mayor, and that's wrong. So open primaries, I think, at this point, would increase the number of voters who are coming into the primary process, and I think that would be a good thing. (03:43–03:58)
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