Let Your Voice Be Heard: Sign Our Petition

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Every spring, Pennsylvania's voters head to the polls for the Commonwealth's primary elections.

But not everyone is included in this process. That’s because primaries are closed in Pennsylvania.  More than 1.4 million taxpaying independent voters are denied their right to vote in these elections, despite paying their share of $75 million a year to fund them.

It’s time to #RepealClosedPrimaries and allow every legally registered voter to cast a ballot in PA’s primary.

77% of Pennsylvanians support repealing closed primaries - including strong majorities of independents, Democrats, and Republicans.

Repealing closed primaries would guarantee a more fair process, increase the competitiveness of races, and help limit the amount of extremism and gridlock on both sides.

Join the overwhelming majority of PA voters who favor repealing closed primaries.

 

4,499 signatures

Will you sign?

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  • Jaclyn Spainhour
    signed 2025-07-07 08:56:49 -0400
  • David Tubbs
    signed 2025-07-07 08:36:40 -0400
    What is democracy if only certain voices are allowed to be heard?
  • Cam Watts
    signed 2025-07-03 11:26:11 -0400
  • Julia Hogan
    signed 2025-07-02 14:32:06 -0400
  • Linda Lipkis
    signed 2025-07-02 10:01:37 -0400
  • Finbarr McCarthy
    signed 2025-07-02 08:51:39 -0400
  • Mary McKenna
    signed 2025-07-01 22:19:26 -0400
    Please push this. Too many people are being excluded from important primary voting!
  • Alan Southergill
    signed via 2025-07-01 07:48:28 -0400
    I am an independent voter because I am ashamed of the republican president and the maga movement.
  • Christine Southergill
    signed 2025-07-01 07:27:18 -0400
  • Michael Croyle
    signed 2025-06-23 08:48:54 -0400
  • Anne Gemmell
    signed 2025-06-18 11:41:00 -0400
    William Penn Foundation just posted this RFP. I feel Open Primaries would go very far to boost voter participation.

    https://williampennfoundation.org/rfp/voter-participation-2025
  • Jude York
    signed 2025-06-09 16:01:34 -0400
  • William Goddin
    signed 2025-06-08 09:22:45 -0400
  • Jett Leonard
    signed 2025-06-08 09:19:55 -0400
  • Irvin Carter
    signed 2025-06-07 12:17:27 -0400
    I agree we the people who are neither party are being discriminate against from the Democrats and the Republicans!
  • Julien wells
    signed 2025-06-02 19:32:18 -0400
  • Thomas Golden
    signed 2025-06-02 10:36:24 -0400
  • Lewis Cole
    signed 2025-06-01 13:43:28 -0400
  • jonathan kunkle
    signed 2025-05-30 07:59:19 -0400
  • Thomas Stanton
    signed 2025-05-29 07:42:05 -0400
    As a registered Independent, I feel frustrated that I’m left out of 50% of the elections.
  • Jill Mancuso
    signed via 2025-05-28 10:17:22 -0400
  • David Andersen
    signed 2025-05-28 06:17:16 -0400
  • Christine Mitses
    signed 2025-05-27 16:58:35 -0400
  • Lauren Volz
    signed via 2025-05-22 20:18:03 -0400
  • George Fitzgerald
    signed via 2025-05-22 15:45:15 -0400
  • Rianna Bixler
    signed 2025-05-21 10:35:12 -0400
  • Beth Clark
    signed via 2025-05-21 10:01:44 -0400
  • John Crilly
    signed 2025-05-21 09:33:31 -0400
    Not OK to deny voters to vote.
  • Helen Stickney
    signed 2025-05-20 21:23:44 -0400
    It’s shameful that as an independent, I can’t vote in the primary for the mayor of my borough, borough council, or school board —even though these are non-partisan roles in my region. It’s hard to swallow the idea that I have to claim party affiliation to a party I don’t align with in order to participate in the civic process.
  • Kim VanOrmer
    signed 2025-05-20 17:02:05 -0400

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