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Hi John --
I’m Harry Patton Hou, a student at Swarthmore College in PA and Co-Founder of Students for Ballot PA <[link removed]>. I’ve been working for the last two years with college students across Pennsylvania to push for bipartisan legislation that would repeal PA’s outdated and exclusionary closed primary system.
Our current system disempowers voters–especially young voters! College-aged voters like me and many of my peers have a higher tendency to register as independents. Our generation has grown up with a political discourse that resembles a hurricane of voices. Practically any issue brings a thousand viewpoints in discord. It should not come as a surprise that the Institute for Citizens and Scholars recently found that 61% of young voters do not affiliate themselves with either of our two major political parties.
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of democracy–we should strive to always be at the forefront of reforms that improve our democratic process–so why are we locking out over a million voters from primaries that determine 90% of Pennsylvania’s elections?
I’m here today to add my voice and encourage you to donate to the Open Primaries Annual Fundraising campaign <[link removed]> because their support and leadership in the work that we’re doing in Pennsylvania and the work countless other activists across the country are doing is invaluable.
Reforming our primaries so that all voters can fully participate is of vital importance to the people of Pennsylvania and to the people of this country. Closed primaries limit voter participation and can lead our politicians being accountable to partisan interests rather than all of their constituents.
Please get involved, donate to Open Primaries TODAY <[link removed]> so that I’m a part of the last generation operating in this closed system.
Thank you!
Harry Patton Hou
Students for Ballot PA
PS–PA is just one state with a current campaign–there are budding campaigns to protect or enact open primaries across the country–if you can come on board and make a monthly contribution <[link removed]> it would be extremely meaningful to Open Primaries and the friends, state partners and activists around the country who are working for political reform!
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