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.

 

4,689 signatures

Will you sign?

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  • Kyle Kelly
    signed 2023-05-18 15:04:39 -0400
  • David Nyman
    signed 2023-05-18 08:57:40 -0400
  • Lora bartlett
    signed 2023-05-18 07:22:26 -0400
  • Meredith Torres
    signed 2023-05-17 17:02:38 -0400
  • Leah Rash
    signed 2023-05-17 15:48:36 -0400
  • Sandra Grafius
    signed 2023-05-17 13:58:48 -0400
    Although I am a registered Democrat, I want to see Pennsylvania move to the open primary in order to cease disenfranchising voters who are not members of the two main political parties. The closed primary option should be illegal in the United States as it prevents many duly registered voters from exercising a constitutional right. This is unconscionable and unethical.
  • Cory Johnson
    signed 2023-05-17 11:50:08 -0400
    We deserve fair, free, honest and open elections.
  • Karen Pummer
    signed 2023-05-17 11:23:00 -0400
  • Heather Klimek
    signed via 2023-05-17 09:07:48 -0400
  • Lionel Fowler
    signed 2023-05-16 18:14:30 -0400
    If we pay are taxes into it we should be able to in it all primary or regular
  • kevin messick
    signed 2023-05-16 15:26:45 -0400
    Please let me vote.
  • Tanya Taylor
    signed 2023-05-16 14:57:10 -0400
    Just got turned away from the ballot here in our primary because I am registered an Independent. If there is not going to be an independent in the Fall election, I believe we should be able to vote in the primary. Does our vote not matter?
  • Stephen Smith
    signed 2023-05-16 14:22:14 -0400
  • Robert Chappell
    signed 2023-05-16 12:57:22 -0400
  • David Eberle
    signed 2023-05-16 12:30:43 -0400
  • Eric Rozzi
    signed 2023-05-16 11:46:16 -0400
  • Sean O'Rourke
    signed 2023-05-16 11:30:22 -0400
  • Scott Smith
    signed 2023-05-16 11:21:41 -0400
    I personally believe that the political parties should be abolished. There is way too much fighting between the two major parties and it seems like most politicians stick to their party policies instead of fighting for what is just and right.
  • Tara Leach
    signed 2023-05-16 10:16:29 -0400
  • Lisa Walton
    signed 2023-05-16 10:12:51 -0400
  • Karen Johnson
    signed 2023-05-16 09:43:16 -0400
    Please allow Independent voters to have a voice in All elections in PA.
  • John Willover
    signed 2023-05-16 09:19:24 -0400
  • Ryan Zulawski
    signed 2023-05-16 08:43:25 -0400
  • Jackson Mendillo
    signed 2023-05-16 08:33:35 -0400
  • Raymond Geissler
    signed 2023-05-16 08:26:21 -0400
    It’s archaic. It’s not a sports draft. Open the primaries.
  • Caitlin Shupp
    signed 2023-05-15 20:49:50 -0400
  • Donna Johnson
    signed 2023-05-15 14:59:18 -0400
    Let’s make everyone’s vote be heard; party affiliation should be moot. Let’s change the system and take PA, the land before time, into the 21st century.
  • Marie Benson
    signed 2023-05-15 08:56:05 -0400
  • Gino Bovo
    signed 2023-05-15 07:20:09 -0400
  • Steve Paff
    signed 2023-05-14 21:52:14 -0400

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