Closed primaries are 'just not fair,' said famed Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rock Bleier in lobbying for a bill that would allow independent voters to participate in primaries.
Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rocky Bleier joined a bipartisan group of state senators on Wednesday to champion a bill that would allow registered independents to vote in Pennsylvania’s primary elections.in the Capitol, Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie County, who has co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-Northampton County, said that about 1.
Boscola said that independent voters are the fastest-growing voting bloc and closed primaries continue to disenfranchise them. She said the bipartisan support for the bill reflects the changing landscape among the state’s electorate. David Thornburgh, the former CEO of the independent good-government group Committee of Seventy and son of former Gov. Dick Thornburgh, is now the chairman of the Committee of Seventy’sThornburgh hosted the event and said that independent voters were “collateral damage” in the legislation signed in 1937 that closed primaries.
Boscola said that open primaries would help in ending “extremism” in both the Republican and Democratic parties and force candidates to cater to voters not part of their “hyper-partisan base.”
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