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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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  • Pamela Forsythe
    signed 2026-08-18 14:24:41 -0400
    This is an easy fix, except that the people who decide are the ones benefitting from the current system. It is undemocratic to deny any voter a vote in the primaries. And, letting all voters get involved, I believe, would prevent candidates from appealing only to the most extreme and/or engaged voters, who currently are the ones most likely to vote in primaries.
  • Pellumb Dizdari
    signed 2026-08-18 09:03:33 -0400
  • Nathan Holland
    signed 2026-08-14 12:54:26 -0400
  • Daniel J Taylor
    signed 2026-08-07 21:59:16 -0400
  • Mike Mckie
    signed 2026-08-04 19:14:29 -0400
  • Erin Brown
    signed 2026-08-04 12:34:07 -0400
    I’d like to volunteer to help to move this forward.
  • Shannon Salter
    signed 2026-08-04 12:20:41 -0400
  • Barbara Huffard
    signed 2026-07-25 21:11:26 -0400
  • Thomas Brown
    signed 2026-07-24 09:39:59 -0400
  • Hope McVeea
    signed 2026-07-12 11:58:02 -0400
  • Donna Bullard
    signed 2026-07-08 09:20:41 -0400
  • Patricia Weinstein
    signed 2026-06-29 14:04:50 -0400
  • Michael Flasher
    signed via 2026-06-28 06:11:44 -0400
  • Jamison Dippel
    signed 2026-06-28 04:02:12 -0400
    I need to be real: I actually want to dedicate my life to this cause. I believe that closed primaries are purposeful means of voter disenfranchising and want to ensure this is eliminated in Pennsylvania. Please contact me, I am a political science junkie and at 46 getting my degree in the field. I want to do anything and everything I can to help this cause. I will testify or write papers or statements, I will advocate, I will do ANYHTING. – Jamison
  • Elaine Lane
    signed 2026-06-26 07:46:38 -0400
    I want pa to be an open primary state
  • Faye Robbins
    signed 2026-06-25 15:57:44 -0400
  • Adam Drupka
    signed 2026-06-10 06:05:23 -0400
    No taxation without representation. If I can not vote in primaries , I am forced to vote for someone I don’t like and/or consider lesser evil or do not vote all together in general elections. In communist Poland , there was only one party that one could vote for , meaning if one goes and votes that person voted YES for the system/party , the representatives didn’t matter. Consequence was following, most people didn’t vote in Poland to express opposition, but it didn’t matter. Those who voted, mostly party member could say : society supported us 100%. What a lie, what a cheat. Closed primaries small exactly like that scheme. This is not a democratic process, this is tyrannical system. Closed primaries kill healthy competition between politicians and ideas, it undermines trust in election process.
  • David Coutu
    signed 2026-06-07 08:02:48 -0400
  • Maddison Brindle
    signed 2026-05-26 00:07:42 -0400
  • Joan Holyk
    signed 2026-05-23 14:54:35 -0400
  • Lynne Schaubert
    signed 2026-05-22 10:34:56 -0400
  • Katherine DiSantis
    signed 2026-05-22 09:38:17 -0400
  • Abby Rolland
    signed 2026-05-21 14:53:47 -0400
  • Delana Gray-Tuttle
    signed 2026-05-21 12:35:32 -0400
  • Paul Remaley
    signed 2026-05-21 06:42:21 -0400
  • Peter Holyk
    signed 2026-05-20 12:58:10 -0400
  • Amir Branch
    signed 2026-05-20 09:07:05 -0400
  • JoDean Myers
    signed 2026-05-20 08:32:30 -0400
  • Cathy Roth
    signed 2026-05-19 21:59:04 -0400
  • Marie Jean
    signed 2026-05-19 19:32:13 -0400
    Today may 19 2026… district 27 had a close primary, had me as unaffiliated and dont allowed me to vote for any of the candidates

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