RESEARCH
Election Administration in America--Partisan by Design (2022)
Jeremy Gruber, John Opdycke, Thom Reilly & Jacqueline Salit. A collaboration between the Open Primaries Education Fund & Arizona State University’s Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy
What it Took to Bring Open Primaries to Maine (2021)
Open Primaries Staff
Open Primaries Education Fund's 2020 Independents Report
John Opdycke (President, Open Primaries) & Jeremy Gruber (Senior VP, Open Primaries)
The Nebraska Report, The Myth of the Red State: Policy over Party in the Nebraska State Capitol (2016)
Jeremy Gruber (Senior VP, Open Primaries)
Taxpayer Funding-The Cost of Closed Primaries (2016)
Open Primaries Staff
The California Report, “A Quiet Revolution” The Early Success of California’s Top Two Nonpartisan Primary (2015)
Jason D. Olson, Founder of IndependentVoice.org and Omar H. Ali, PHD., Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Unite America Institute: California's Top Two Primary--The Effects on Electoral Politics & Governance(2023)
Dr. Richard Barton/Unite America Institute
Rose Institute Q & A: California's Top Two Election System (2022)
J. Andrew Sinclair/Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont Mckenna College
Top Two Process in California (2020)
California Chamber of Commerce
Evaluating California’s Top-two Primary & Political Reforms in California (2020)
Christian Grose PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science at USC
Reducing Legislative Polarization: Top Two & Open Primaries are Associated with More Moderate Legislators (2020)
Christian R. Grose, USC Schwarzenegger Institute
Model Top Two Primary Act (2020)
Open Primaries Staff
Polarization and the Top-Two Primary: Moderating Candidate Rhetoric in One-Party Contests (2019)
Steven Sparks, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
California Top Two Open Primary: A Successful Reform (2019)
Charles T. Munger (A USC Schwarzenegger Institute white paper)
Competition and the Top Two Open Primary in Washington State (2019)
Emily Schnurr, a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Political Science in American Politics Northern Arizona University (May 2019)
California Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Structuring Good Representation: Institutional Design and Elections in California (2018)
Sara Sadhwani & Jane Junn/USC
Reflections on the Impact of a Decade of Political Reforms in California (2018)
Kathy Armstrong/California Forward
Political Reforms in California are Associated with Less Ideologically Extreme State Legislators (2016)
-Christian R. Grose, Assoicate Professor/USC
Winning from the Center: Frank Bigelow and California’s Nonpartisan Primary (2015)
-Andrew Sinclair, California Journal of Politics and Policy
The California Report, “A Quiet Revolution” The Early Success of California’s Top Two Nonpartisan Primary (2015)
Jason D. Olson, Founder of IndependentVoice.org and Omar H. Ali, PHD., Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The Adoption of Electoral Reforms and Ideological Change in the CA State Legislature (2014)
-Christian Grose, Schwarzenegger Institute Report
The Partisan Costs of Automatic Voter Registration (2023)
Ellen Seljan, Todd Lochner & Alex Webb (Electoral Studies)
Open Primaries Education Fund's 2020 Independents Report
John Opdycke (President, Open Primaries) & Jeremy Gruber (Senior VP, Open Primaries)
Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States, Touro Law Review (2019)
Jeremy Gruber (Senior VP Open Primaries), Michael Hardy (Executive VP & General Counsel to the National Action Network) & Harry Kresky (Counsel to IndependentVoting.org)
Independent Voter Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Who is Arizona’s Independent Voter? (2015)
Florida’s Changing Electorate: More Racially/Ethnically and Age Diverse (2023)
By Susan A. MacManus, USF Distinguished University Professor Emerita (James Madison University)
Real Talk: Understanding Texas Latino Voters Through Meaningful Conversations (2021)
Michael Powell, Ph. D., Cecilia Balli, Ph. D., Betsabeth Monica Lugo, Ph. D. (Texas Organizing Project Education Fund)
Open Primaries & Communities of Color Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Arizona Latino Survey: An Appetite for Reform (2015)
OP Senior VP Jeremy Gruber testifies before the PA House State Government Committee (2023)
In support of HB976 & HB979 to open PA’s primaries to Independent voters.
Open Primaries Submitted Amicus Letter to the Supreme Court of California (2023)
In support of the Independent Voter Project’s petition to hear a lawsuit challenging California’s semi-closed presidential primary.
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the Montana House State Administrative Committee (2023)
In opposition of SB566.
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the Nebraska Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee (2023)
In support of LB 776, a bill to extend the usage of nonpartisan primary ballots for the Unicameral in Nebraska to all other state and federal elections.
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the New Mexico House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee (2023)
In support of HB54, New Mexico Open Primaries’ a bill to open primary elections in the state of New Mexico to registered independent voters.
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the Wyoming State Corporations Committee (2022)
OP weighs in on the debate happening on Wyoming’s primaries
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the Virginia House Privileges and Elections--Election Administration Subcommittee (2021)
In opposition of HB2278, a bill to close Virginia’s primaries
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies before the Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee (2019)
In support of HB26 Baltimore City-Ranked Choice Voting & Open Primaries
OP Senior VP, Jeremy Gruber testifies in PA State Government Committee Hearing on Election Law Legislation (2019)
In support of SB300 Pennsylvania Open Primaries
Open Primaries Veterans Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Electoral Competition Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Nebraska Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
California Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Independent Voter Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Open Primaries & Communities of Color Fact Sheet (2019)
Open Primaries Staff
Reforming Baltimore's Mayoral Elections: How we can increase electoral competition, raise participation & improve political representation (2020)
Christopher Warshaw, The Abell Foundation.
Primary Election Turnout and Reform (2018) see pgs. 12-13
Bipartisan Policy Center
ASU Symposium (2017)
-Open Primaries Education Fund, the Morrison Institute for Public Policy, the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy and IndependentVoting.org, a national organizing center, hosted a daylong national forum and roundtable on the topic of open primaries
Oklahoma Voter Survey (2015)
Public Policy Polling
The Analysis of Crossover and Strategic Voting (2010)
R. Michael Alvarez (California Institute of Technology) & Jonathan Nagler (University of California, Riverside)
Report: Cities 101-Partisan and Nonpartisan Election–Over three-quarters of all municipalities have nonpartisan elections (2003)
National League of Cities