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How To Navigate a BallotEngine Voter Guide
Learn how to build your ballot through BallotEngine Voter Guide
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How to navigate a BallotEngine Voter Guide
This video explains how to properly navigate a BallotEngine platform so that you're ready to vote come election day.
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In Support of the Proposed Amendment to the Home Rule Charter Educational Supplement
What is the amendment about? City 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. These changes would impact the nomination, appointment and removal process for Board of Education members and create a Parent and Community Advisory Council charged with “consult[ing] on issues pertaining to educational policy and family and community engagement in schools.”
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Inaugural Women in Public Leadership Event
Join the Committee of Seventy for an event celebrating women in public service in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
video/Voting Rights
Interview with Amber McReynolds
Amber McReynolds, CEO, National Vote at Home Institute
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Investing in Democracy with David Rubenstein
Watch the livestream from 6-7pm on November 21st of our program, Investing in Democracy: Patriotic Philanthropy and the Business Case for Civic Participation
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Joy of Voting
Parades, street theatre, open-air debates, and festivals – these were once part of America’s culture of voting and it’s time to revive them.
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Keystone Votes Coalition Report Indicates Thousands of Lost or Late Voter Registration Records in 2016
17,000 late processed applications found in Philadelphia alone
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Killing PGW Deal Cowardly and an Affront to City Taxpayers
PHILADELPHIA – October 27, 2014 – The Committee of Seventy called Philadelphia City Council’s unilateral decision today to kill a proposed $1.86 billion sale of the Philadelphia Gas Works without a public hearing an affront to the taxpayers of Philadelphia.
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Kristen Soltis Anderson and the Future of the Republican Party
Kristen Soltis Anderson is speaker, commentator, pollster and author who is the co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion and analytics research firm.