May 17, 2021 2 min read

Make your voice heard and vote – even if you’re not a Republican or Democrat!

Today is Election Day in Pennsylvania, and while the spring primary is normally reserved for only Republicans and Democrats to formally nominate candidates for the general election in November, this year it’s a bit different.

In addition to the normal municipal primary (which also includes county row offices and judges seats as well as several state judges), there are some ballot questions that will be posed to voters for the purpose of potentially amending the state constitution.

Those questions are fair game for everyone to have a say, even if Pennsylvania’s closed primary system means independents and third-party voters won’t yet get to cast ballots for specific candidates.

So, we urge you, all of you who are registered to vote, to make plans to cast a ballot today at your local polling place – unless, of course, you’ve already voted by mail or absentee ballot.

It’s always important to make your voice heard, but especially so when the elections are primarily at the local and county level like they are this time.

The people who hold power in our local municipalities, and those who earn county office, will have a much more noticeable effect on our day-to-day lives than those who are elected to federal or even state office, as important as those offices are, too.

And whether and how our state constitution will be amended could play a major role in how our lives are governed should another emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic occur in the future.

The polls are open for 13 hours today – 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. We hope you will make time to go participate in choosing who has a chance to govern you.

And to all the poll workers who will toil all day so we may exercise our right to vote and to those who will ultimately tally the votes once the polls are closed, we say thank you for doing those thankless jobs that make our democracy work.

Make your voice matter. Make a difference. Vote.