Open The Primaries to Independent Voters!

40% of American voters now identify as independents. With more and more voters identifying with neither party, partisan primaries that bar independents are a serious barrier to free and fair elections.

In the 2008 election, 10.5 million independents were not able to vote in the presidential primaries in 17 states. For local offices, that number is even higher.

By contrast, In 33 open-primary states, 2.7 million independents gave Barack Obama his margin of victory, making him the first Democratic Party presidential nominee in history to clinch the nomination with the support of an outsider movement.

Use the above link to sign the Open Letter to President Obama sponsored by IndependentVoting.org. Ask him to support open primaries. It's the kind of change we can all get behind.

Michael H. Drucker
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