Is Pennsylvania’s ban on independent voters participating in party primary elections unconstitutional?

That’s the question a group of independents is asking the state Commonwealth Court to consider in a new filing announced Wednesday.

Ballot PA Action , an offshoot organization of the good government Committee of Seventy group, praised the filing their chairman and former Committee of Seventy CEO David Thornburgh, TV and radio host Michael Smerconish and three other Pennsylvanians.

“After 88 years of being treated as second-class Pennsylvania citizens, 1.4 million independent voters will finally get our day in court,” said Thornburgh, the son of former Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, according to a statement.

The plaintiffs, Thornburgh said, “are confident in our argum

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