Despite their growing numbers, 1.4 million independent and third-party Pennsylvania voters won’t be able to help decide which candidates advance to the general election during the upcoming May 20 primaries.

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The party is urging the Supreme Court to reject Republicans’ efforts to limit provisional voting in the state.

Democrats and Republicans will choose their parties’ candidates for a vacancy on Commonwealth Court and on Superior Court. The winners will compete in the November general election.

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The Pa. Supreme Court reprimanded him as a lawyer. Philly Democrats want to make him a judge anyway. Judicial candidates like Shawn Page who win the party’s endorsement almost always triumph in the primary.

An 'open primary' system could allow more voters to cast ballots. But that would require a change to Pennsylvania's election laws.

As the number of independent voters grows, there is broad bipartisan support among Pennsylvania voters for allowing the state’s 1.4 million independents to participate in primary elections, says a new poll.

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Voting is about to begin in Berks County. Election officials said the first batch of about 16,000 mail ballots are being sent to voters who requested them and should begin arriving in mailboxes this week.