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How To Navigate a BallotEngine Voter Guide

Learn how to build your ballot through BallotEngine Voter Guide

Committee of Seventy Denounces President's Attack on Democracy, Calls to Finish the Count

In this Commonwealth and in every state across the country, counted votes are legal votes, and every vote must be counted. Our votes have been cast. Now we are completing their count, and we must defend the integrity of that process. We must defend our democracy.

Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot

What happens after you drop off your mail-in ballot? Watch this video to discover the step by step process for validating, scanning and counting mail-in ballots in Philadelphia's 2020 General Election.

Chat with Commissioner Lisa Deely

Chat with Lisa Deely, the Chair of the City Commissioner

Michael Smerconish Speaks at Seventy Minutes

This news magazine-style virtual event is exclusively available to Committee of Seventy guests. Just 15 days before the election, national commentators, pollsters, politicians, and historians joined in conversation to help us anticipate the Presidential election and what it means for America and the world.

Delivering Democracy: Asma Khalid Speaks at Seventy Minutes

Asma Khalid, political correspondent for NPR and cohost of the NPR Politics Podcast, speaks at Seventy Minutes.

Where America Needs to Go from Here: Michael Smerconish & Chuck Rosenberg Speak at Seventy Minutes

Michael Smerconish & Chuck Rosenberg Speak at Seventy Minutes

What It Means: This American Moment in Context

Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian, NBC News and PBS NewsHour, The New York Times columnist and #1 bestselling author, speaks at Seventy Minutes

Everybody Votes

This clip is an excerpt from the 70 minutes news magazine-style virtual event is exclusively available to Committee of Seventy guests. Just 15 days before the election, national commentators, pollsters, politicians, and historians joined in conversation to help us anticipate the Presidential election and what it means for America and the world.

Central and Girls High students interview Auditor General candidate Nina Ahmad

by PhillyYouthVote and Studio C70