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(Philadelphia, PA) More than 950 high-school students from 22 high schools in Philadelphia and Montgomery County are participating in Committee of Seventy’s expanded Election Ambassador Corps trainings this spring. That’s more than a 50% increase from the number who participated last fall. The students prepared to serve as Election Ambassadors more than 1,000 polling places near their homes on Pennsylvania’s Primary Day, April 26.

Philadelphia City Council | Committee on Law and Government

Philadelphia Board of Ethics

Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee

BallotPA chair David Thornburgh urged Speaker Rozzi and his bipartisan workgroup members to consider allowing independents to vote in primary elections as a means to ease partisan gridlock.

With a plurality of voters — 20% — still undecided, the election’s results are far from predetermined.

Discuss and practice ranked choice voting with students. (45 minutes)

There are many sources available to news consumers. How do they know which sources are misleading or opinionated? Which are credible or fact-based?

Please join us to strike a blow for the notion that America isn’t doomed to division. Some hard work needs doing, but we can do it. Beginning here, in Philadelphia.

by Margaree King Mitchell