Daily News | Pa. Election Day 2022: Why independents can’t vote for candidates this May, and the push to change that
That’s one of the reasons why Ballot PA — a coalition of civic and community organizations including Common Cause PA, the League of Women Voters, and the Committee of Seventy — has launched a campaign to open Pennsylvania’s closed primary system.
Each state organizes its primary in its own way. Some allow independent voters as well as third-party registrants to cast a ballot in the major party primaries, while other states do not. Some states even change this rule on a yearly basis.Pennsylvania’s system was enshrined in its 1937 Election Code. It was intended as a remedy to a developing issue.
Studies have shown that polarization is rising in state legislatures across the country a, in part due to primaries.found that “more-extreme candidates” do better in contested primaries– races that have multiple candidates. Currently, a bill meant to do just that is making its way through the state Senate. SB 690 would allow unaffiliated voters to support a candidate in the Democratic or Republican primary. The current iteration of the bill is co-sponsored by state Sens. Dan Laughlin and Maria Collett , and is currently awaiting consideration in the State Government Committee.
Argall is referring to crossover voting, which allows voters who are registered with one major party to vote in another’s primary. The bill pending in Pennsylvania would not allow this.
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