After a legislative effort to require party registration stalled, the Alabama GOP made closing its primaries an official party priority—even as some Republican lawmakers warn it would shut out too many independent voters.
A constitutional lawsuit in Oregon is challenging closed primaries and forced party membership, sparking a broader national debate about independent voter rights and public elections.
After two Charter Revision Commissions, five op-eds in one week, and a new poll blowing up the "donor scheme" narrative, independent voters are done waiting to be invited into the conversation.
After lawmakers refused to close the state’s primaries, Republican leaders in another state turned to federal court—joining a broader campaign to exclude independent voters from taxpayer-funded elections.
As America celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, millions of independent voters are raising their voices to declare that the promise of 1776 belongs to every citizen.
In 2024, D.C. voters overwhelmingly approved ballot initiative 83 to open the city’s taxpayer-funded primary elections, with 73% of voters voting yes. But New York independent voters remained locked out in their state despite funding the elections.
This growing shift raises a fundamental question: Can a system designed by partisans for partisans remain legitimate when the country is going independent?
1.2 million independent voters in New York City are shut out of primary elections, and in a very blue city like NYC, the primaries are the ONLY elections that matter.
Independent voters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh showed up at polling places across Pennsylvania on Tuesday with a simple message: stop locking 1.5 million voters out of taxpayer-funded elections. But there's more!
This week the Supreme Court denied cert in the case of Polelle v.Byrd; a case challenging Florida’s closed primary in the federal courts. It was not an unexpected
Jeremy Gruber
