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Poll workers are crucial to Election Day. Many counties accept 17-year-olds to work the polls, and get paid for doing so. (10 minutes)

Local jurisdictions will bear the heaviest burden of protecting voters and workers from COVID-19. They need federal funding now.

Proposals to Reinstitute a Pre-hire Residency Requirement for City Employees and Create a Citizens Police Oversight Commission City Council Law and Government Committee June 17, 2020

For the fourth consecutive year, the Committee of Seventy, in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, launched its poll worker and poll watcher virtual information sessions in advance of the April 23, 2024 primary election. Between March 1st and April 22nd, Seventy and the LWVPA will host nearly 30 sessions designed for both new and experienced poll workers and poll watchers.

The nonprofit’s largest ever single grant will also fund voter outreach and support for election workers.

Chris Satullo, former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and Director of News and Civic Engagement at WHYY, now Civic Engagement Consultant for the Committee of Seventy, led a conversation with national print, electronic, digital journalists covering the 2016 race.

If you are signed up to work the polls or signed up to be "on call" as a backup poll worker, please join this call to get your questions answered and prepare for your day serving your community!

If you are signed up to work the polls or signed up to be "on call" as a back up poll worker, please join this call to get your questions answered and prepare for your day serving your community!

If you are signed up to work the polls or signed up to be "on call" as a back up poll worker, please join this call to get your questions answered and prepare for your day serving your community!

PHILADELPHIA – March 17, 2014 –The Committee of Seventy today urged the Pennsylvania General Assembly to quickly allow for the creation of an independent counsel to conduct a fair and non-partisan investigation into a dismissed three-year sting operation that allegedly captured on tape four state Representatives taking money from an undercover informant. The operation, which also involved a former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge accepting a bracelet, was reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.