Write it in

Every election. Every voter. Every level. Write someone in. Anyone you'd actually want to represent you.

The question we want everyone asking, every time they vote: Who do you actually want to represent you?

Four cases

If the answer is someone who isn't running, write them in.

If the answer is someone running for a different office or in a different district, write them in.

If the answer is someone already on your ballot, write them in anyway. The act registers as a write-in vote, and write-in tallies are reported separately from on-ballot vote totals.

If the answer is "I don't have a name yet," sign the pledge below. You'll think of one when the time comes.

Why this matters

Write-in totals are reported publicly after every election. Officials, journalists, future candidates, and party operators all see them. A district where a meaningful share of voters write in any name is a district where the existing parties cannot pretend everyone was satisfied.

That signal is what we are asking for. It carries weight regardless of whether any single write-in candidate wins. Most won't. The point isn't to win. The point is to make "who would you actually want" a question that gets asked at every level of every election.

How

The mechanics depend on your state. In Pennsylvania, every ballot has a write-in line on federal races and on most state and local races. You mark the line and write the name.

Read the full how-to-vote page →

For elections outside Pennsylvania, your state's election office is the source of truth — sample ballots, polling locations, mail-in deadlines, and the rules for how write-ins are counted vary by state.

Pledge

A signal of intent, not a binding commitment. Sign up below if you'll write someone in — anyone — in the next election you vote in.

Why this is the ground game

This is the working mission of Square Party. Not the only thing the project does, but the most tangible.

The existing parties have become more about defending their brand than about representing the people who vote for them. The cycle is hard to break from the inside. Party gatekeeping, ballot-access rules, and primary calendars all favor incumbents. From outside, the lever available to almost everyone is the write-in line. It is a signal that requires no party, no money, no permission. It says: I wanted more options than the ones I was offered.

That signal, scaled, is something the system has to read. We aggregate the count and publish it. Legislatures, parties, and journalists can see it.

If you're represented and you know it, you don't need this page. Most of us aren't — so write someone in.

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