The Better Philadelphia Elections Coalition will not be endorsing any candidates for City Commissioner in 2019 but will be promoting an agenda around critical issues in local elections, including voting system technology and election security, poll worker recruitment and preparation, disability access and support for limited English proficiency voters.
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With polls opening Tuesday, November 6, the Committee of Seventy’s nonpartisan Voter Guide and Election Programs are ready to engage voters and improve the voting experience in the Philadelphia area. This year, Seventy is excited to include its WeVote app in the resources voters can leverage to make informed decisions at the polls.
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The Committee of Seventy, the nonpartisan civic leadership organization, announces the launch of WeVote, an initiative to promote a culture voting in the Greater Philadelphia region through engaging businesses, organizations, and communities and leveraging a new mobile app by MilkCrate.
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The Committee of Seventy, the nonpartisan civic leadership organization, is pleased to launch Draw the Lines, a three-year initiative to inform and engage Pennsylvanians around gerrymandering and democratic reform.
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The Committee of Seventy, the nonpartisan civic leadership organization, is pleased to introduce the second cohort of Buchholz Fellows, emerging under-40 Philadelphia leaders who work in the nonprofit or private sectors. Six promising young Philadelphians will spend a year as members of the Board of the century-old good government group.
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“A quality education that prepares young people for the rigors and pace of the 21st century economy is urgent,” said Seventy CEO David Thornburgh. “But no less important is the cultivation of the next generation of informed and engaged citizens.”
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With the General Assembly adjourning for the summer, it will take extraordinary steps to meet the deadline for creating, by constitutional amendment, a new citizens commission to draw both the congressional and state legislative maps following the 2020 Census.
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Philadelphia voters will decide on May 15 whether the so-called Educational Supplement to the Home Rule Charter dealing with the public school system will be amended in various parts. Find out more before heading to the polls.
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Nonpartisan Voter Guide Expanded to All Five PA Counties in Greater Philadelphia
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The House State Government Committee decided this morning to pass an amendment gutting a redistricting reform bill that had attracted 109 co-sponsors—more than half of the House. This hastily called meeting, featuring no public comment and on a straight party-line vote, was a case study in what’s gone deeply wrong in Harrisburg.
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