New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
Pennsylvania high schools play an important role in registering first-time voters, but could be doing more by actively supporting in-school voter registration drives.
Amid ongoing attacks on democracy and the state’s electoral process, organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are focused on ensuring that voters are well-informed, engaged, and actually voting in local elections.
Thirty-three percent of all eligible Black men in Pennsylvania are not registered to vote. This needs to change.
Bob Harvie and Diane Marseglia, lifelong residents of Bucks County, are running for reelection as County Commissioners. We spoke with them about why they are running and why this election is so critical.
The 2024 primary is currently set for April 23, late in the presidential primary season and in conflict with Passover.
CBSD Fair Votes presented the most comprehensive map that heeds the Free and Equal Elections Clause and incorporates population and voter data, while providing voters the ability to cast ballots every two years.
PA’s Department of State reaches agreement after advocates raised concerns in 2019 with a new voting machine that glitched and compromised voter privacy in its first year.
Democracy and voting rights can either be protected, or gutted, in the state’s high courts.
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
It plans to visit all 67 counties and help local leaders and organizations solve problems tearing communities apart by promoting and prioritizing peace, understanding, and tolerance.
If we taught peace lessons to youth each year – grades K-12 – would they change how they handle conflict?
Once again the Moms for Liberty school board majority continues to push its politically motivated agenda with its proposed athletics policy.
If the Bucks County Beacon is going to be here for the long haul, and save the area from becoming a news desert where extremism and authoritarianism flourishes, we need the community to invest in our independent media project.
