Gennady Yusim

Gennady Yusim grew up in the Ukraine. He is currently a Programming & Outreach Librarian at Queens Library. He volunteers for the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, Open Primaries.

Closed Primaries: A Party’s Power to Make You Run Naked

The movement to reform New York’s election system passed a milestone on December 6, though not the one you might have heard about in the news. On the same

By Gennady Yusim

/ December 14, 2016

Closed Primaries: A Party’s Power to Make You Run Naked

What Makes Politics Unendurable

Governor Bill Weld’s dire verdict on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been taken as an implicit endorsement of Hillary Clinton and made into another sound bite in the

By Gennady Yusim

/ November 7, 2016

Message to a Superdelegate: Stop Trying to Speak for the Masses

Dear Superdelegate, You may be a Congress member, a governor, a mayor, a party official or a president, but two weeks ago at the Democratic National Convention you did something

By Gennady Yusim

/ August 11, 2016

Message to a Superdelegate: Stop Trying to Speak for the Masses

Closed Primaries are Less Inclusive than Soviet Era Politics

I grew up in a country where most elections were fixed, voting made no difference, and the political process was a dull affair run by a party whose politics were

By Gennady Yusim

/ July 21, 2016

Closed Primaries are Less Inclusive than Soviet Era Politics