Brian Ler on WNYC.

Now some really interesting and important things that might be on the New York City ballot this November, other than the mayoral race.

If you listen to the show, you probably know by now

that after the primary in June, we may not end up with just one Democrat on the ballot for mayor

in November, depending on who you count as a Democrat. Mayor Adams, elected as a Democrat, is seeking

re-election as an independent. Then former Governor Cuomo, who is so far leading

in the primary polling, says he might run on a third party line if the Democratic primary voters

don't choose him. A guy named Jim Walden has launched an independent campaign. And if Cuomo does

win the Democratic primary, one of the progressives who he defeats might run on the Working Families Party line in November, all of which leads us to one of the other things you may get to vote on.

Mayor Adams impaneled a charter review commission which can place issue-oriented ballot questions before the voters.

And one of them proposed in the commission's preliminary report

is to move beyond ranked choice voting to a system of open primaries,

non-partisan primaries for future mayoral and other city elections.

To talk about that concept and some of the other ideas in the report were joined by Richard

Bury, CEO of the Anti-Poverty Group Robin Hood and chair of the Charter Revision Commission

convened by Mayor Adams.

He was also a deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio, as some of you may remember.

Mr. Burry, welcome back to WNYC. Hi there.

Good morning, Brian. Good to be with you. So what does open primary mean exactly in your telling of it?

One election of all comers to narrow the field for the general election? Yeah, so there are different

flavors of it, but at essence, what we're likely to propose

to the voters to consider in November is a process that would have one primary.

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