The Pennsylvania House State Government Committee is scheduled to vote on legislation that would allow independents to vote in the state’s primary elections. House Bill 976, sponsored by Representative Marla Brown of Lawrence, and House Bill 979, sponsored by Representative Jared Solomon of Philadelphia, would both open up the primaries to independent voters. Under the legislation, they would notify election officials at the polling station which party’s primary they want to vote in and would then receive a ballot for that primary. Independent voters also would be free to change which party’s primary they want to vote in in each election.