OPEN PRIMARIES PA LAUNCHES STATEWIDE DIGITAL CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
David Thornburgh, President and CEO
Committee of Seventy
dthornburgh@seventy.org; 215-439-0879 c
Outreach to target more than 1.2 million Pennsylvanians shut out of the June 2 primary
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Jeremy Gruber
(609) 610-1602
All New Yorkers Will Not Be Able To Vote on June 23
Open Primaries stands for a simple truth-that the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy. Which is why, while we support Governor Cuomo’s decision to allow absentee voting for New York’s primary elections on June 23, his statement that all New Yorkers will be able to access it is patently false. Millions of independent New Yorkers will continue to be disenfranchised.
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Jeremy Gruber, SVP
jgruber@openprimaries.org
(609) 610-1602
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
St. Louis, MO (September, 2019) – Today Open Primaries, a national election reform advocacy organization, endorsed the St. Louis Approves (STL Approves) campaign to bring approval voting and open, nonpartisan primaries to St. Louis and with it, a more open process that gives all St. Louis voters more voice in city elections.
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Jeremy Gruber, SVP
(609) 610-1602
Los Angeles – February 26, 2019 – The USC Schwarzenegger Institute has just released a ground breaking series of white papers by Charles Munger Jr. that take a comprehensive, data-driven look at the effects of California’s adoption of top two open primaries on its politics. California voters adopted top two open primary elections by referendum in 2010.
Munger demonstrates that California’s top two open primary is delivering productive reforms on a wide range of electoral and political fronts including creating greater competition, greater public interest, increased access for independent voters (25.5%[1] of registered voters), and greater accountability between voters and their elected representatives. It further dispels many of the myths and misconceptions put forward by both Democratic and Republican leadership who have been openly hostile to nonpartisan elections.
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January 16, 2019
CONTACT
Jeremy Gruber, Senior Vice President
(609) 610-1602
Today Open Primaries, a national leader on election reform, and Florida Fair and Open Primaries, a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to enacting open primaries in Florida, released the results of a survey of Florida voters that revealed broad support for inclusive and cross partisan political leadership and reforming Florida’s primary election system at both the state/federal and presidential level.
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January 22, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT
Jeremy Gruber, Senior Vice President
jgruber@openprimaries.org, (609) 610-1602
Open Primaries, a national leader on election reform, is proud to announce the launch of its National Spokesperson Committee, a diverse group of political leaders advocating for reform of America’s closed primary election system. At a time when public trust in our democracy nears historic lows, the Open Primaries Spokesperson Committee is a partnership of political leaders with ordinary citizens committed to a simple proposition: Let All Voters Vote.
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CONTACT
Jeremy Gruber
Senior Vice President
(609) 610-1602
Santa Fe – November 14, 2018 – Open Primaries Education Fund has filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver challenging the state’s expenditure of funds to supervise and administer its closed primary elections. New Mexico is one of only 9 states with completely closed primary elections, which disenfranchise the state’s 270,000 registered independent voters-22% of New Mexicans and the fastest growing segment of the electorate.
OPEF has retained the New Mexico based law firm of Bardacke Allison, headed by former Attorney General Paul Bardacke, who will be lead counsel in bringing this landmark legal challenge. At issue is the unconstitutional use of taxpayer money to pay for primary elections that benefit private political party activities.
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September 19, 2018
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Jeremy Gruber
(609) 610-1602
New York – September 19, 2018 –Tomorrow Manhattan attorney Mark Moody’s lawsuit on behalf of 3.2 million registered independent New Yorkers who were shut out of the 2016 Presidential Primary will be heard on appeal.
After facing disenfranchisement himself, Mark brought this lawsuit which seeks to toss out the state's current voter eligibility regulations for primaries. It also charges that requiring New Yorkers to choose party affiliation at any point in advance of casting a vote in any primary election for public office violates the New York State Constitution
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Steve Hough
Director, Florida Fair and Open Primaries, Inc.
850-381-8435
shough.flopenprimary@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Southport, FL (August 28, 2018) – Today’s primary election in Florida is once again being marred by the exclusion of 3.4 million registered independent voters who are barred from participating. As a result, the state now carries the dubious honor of disenfranchising more independents than any other state in the country, with 27% of all registered voters unable to vote. This despite the fact that Florida taxpayers pay over $13 million dollars every election year to finance the primaries.[1]
Florida Fair and Open Primaries (FFAOP), a grassroots non- partisan organization based in Florida, is standing with the people of Florida who are demanding the right to vote for every registered voter and has launched two petitions to place an open primaries amendment on the 2020 ballot.
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Contact
Steve Hough
Director, Florida Fair and Open Primaries, Inc.
850-381-8435
shough.flopenprimary@gmail.com
Southport, FL (July 18, 2018) – Florida Fair and Open Primaries (FFAOP), a grassroots non- partisan organization based in Florida, has launched two petitions for ballot initiatives to open the primaries to all voters in the state. Currently under Florida’s closed system, voters must join a political party to vote in the primaries.
That means that over 3.4 million independent Florida voters-27% of all registered voters in the state - are currently barred from voting in primary elections that they pay for with their tax dollars. They will once again be disenfranchised from upcoming primary elections on August 28th. For many Florida voters, the primary election is the only election that matters, with a mere 16% of general election races in the state considered competitive in 2016
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