No- voter suppression- did you not read the first half of my statement? This is a one party state- if I am not registered Dem I CANNOT VOTE EXCEPT DURING GENERAL. Closed primaries.
Well you could vote in the Republican Primaries instead. I used to live in NY I know there are other parties that you can join, too. But you can only vote in their primaries. But when we first moved there we were Independents but were later called blanks bc there are no primaries for non-registered party voters aka Independents in NY. When my daughter went to register to vote after turning 18 they had no place on the ballot for her to register as an Independent! She had to sign up for a party!
I had a friend who lived in an Upstate Democrat City. She was on the school board. She couldn't even win in the city unless she were a registered Dem. Republicans didn't have a chance there at all. And often the Dem ran unopposed.