INTERVIEW: Isaac talks with Nick Troiano of Unite America about RCV and Open Primaries
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Today we are going to be releasing an interview we did with Nick Troiano, who's coming back on the podcast for the second time. Nick is the Executive Director of Unite America, an organization trying to spread election reform all across the United States. We thought this interview was timely because we just had a very impactful mayoral race in New York City that was determined by rank choice voting. This interview was recorded back in April so we didn't get his perspective on Zohran Mamdani and what happened in New York City, but we did get to talk to him about similar election reforms that are spreading all across the country.
Looking ahead, I am thrilled to announce that we're actually going to be partnering with Unite America to do some more in-depth reporting and explanatory videos discussing how we might be able to change some of our elections for the better. They are some of the leading experts on election reform in the country. They're actually on the ground trying to make many of these changes.
We have tons more content coming, but we thought this would be a great one to get out to you guys now. I hope you guys enjoy this interview.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.3 | Today, we are going to be releasing an interview we did with Nick Triano, who's coming back on the podcast for the second time. |
| 1:07.7 | Nick is one of the people leading the work at Unite America, which is an organization |
| 1:12.3 | trying to spread election reform all across the United States. And we thought this interview was a |
| 1:17.0 | great time to bring Nick back because we just had a very, very impactful mayoral race in |
| 1:23.5 | New York City that was determined by ranked choice voting. Now, we recorded this interview with |
| 1:28.5 | Nick all the way back in April, so we had kind of taken a little bit how to get it out, |
| 1:33.2 | and then we realized this election was coming up. We thought it would be a lot more relevant |
| 1:36.7 | after that. So we didn't get his perspective on, you know, Zora Mandani and what happened in New |
| 1:41.8 | York City, but we did get to talk to him a lot about similar |
| 1:44.9 | election reforms that are spreading all across the country. And looking ahead, I am thrilled to announce |
| 1:50.7 | that we're actually going to be partnering with United America to do some more in-depth |
| 1:55.3 | reporting and explanatory series and videos trying to suss out exactly how we might be able to change some of |
| 2:02.4 | our elections for the better. They are some of the leading experts on election reform in the |
| 2:07.4 | country. They're actually on the ground trying to make many of these changes. So I'm looking |
| 2:11.6 | forward to many more videos in partnership with the United America, maybe featuring Nick down the road, but definitely |
| 2:19.1 | talking a lot about many of the topics that I know that those guys care about. Now, we have |
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