Think about the Pennsylvania you want to call home, John. Now that the voter registration deadline has passed, there are just less than two weeks left before Election Day. It's important we educate ourselves about the candidates running for federal and state office in our communities so we can come to the polls prepared.

Make your voting plan today! If you plan to vote by mail ballot, you only have until November 1st to request and make sure it's sent early enough to arrive on time.

Will Extremists Defying PA Court Orders Undermine Democracy? This November, #Pennsylvania voters need to come together in defense of our democracy and our courts, writes NPP’s Kadida Kenner in her latest column for Bucks County Beacon.

We will have registered 20,000 new voters across Pennsylvania this year, and still need all hands on deck to ensure all newly registered voters cast their ballot in the November midterm election!

Beginning October 25th, and through November 8th, we shifted our focus to "Get Out The Vote" (GOTV) to reach out to our newly registered voters across the Commonwealth to ensure they make their voices heard and cast their ballot in this important midterm election. 

We need YOUR help to make this happen!

We have several GOTV volunteer opportunities including door knocking, phone banking and staffing party at the poll events so please sign up using the link below and our field team will reach out to your directly.

Keep this Election Protection Hotline Information handy:

866-OUR-VOTE English (Call or text): M-F 10am-7pm; extending to 9pm on 10/17

888-VE-Y-VOTA Spanish/English: M-F 8am-8pm

844-YALLA-US Arabic/English: voicemail response

888-API-VOTE Asian Languages/English: 10am-6pm 7 days/week

Rides to the Polls in Philadelphia:

We got information from an organization called Drive Your Ballot. They are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that provides free rides to vote for voters in and around Philadelphia. Voters can request a ride by reaching out to the call center phone number (267-500-1300) or submitting an online request through the website (https://www.driveyourballot.com). Voters can contact Drive Your Ballot on or before election day to request a free ride from the volunteer drivers. Drive Your Ballot can organize rides for voters who need a ride to a polling place on election day, to an early voting location, or to drop off a mail-in ballot.

The mail voting process can be confusing and has been made even more so by legal challenges, disinformation undermining public faith in elections, and efforts by many Republican lawmakers to prohibit its use.

Here’s everything you need to know about requesting, filling out, and returning your mail ballot

• Leaders from six national racial justice organizations presented polling data they’ve conducted that shows widespread concern about racism, reproductive rights and eroding economic stability, while also suggesting that voters are increasingly concerned that leaders from both political parties are becoming more out of touch with the realities they face, Pennsylvania Capital-Star reports.

• In early September, Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do something about it, Rolling Stone reports

• Two Years After Barrett’s Confirmation, Let’s Be Blunt: The Point Was to End Roe, Truthout reports.

• How do states ensure dead people’s ballots aren’t counted? Election officials regularly check death records. In many states, vital statistics agencies send them monthly lists of people who have died, which officials use to update voter registration files, WESA reports. 

• Pennsylvania’s top election official wants voters to temper their expectations when it comes to knowing the results of this year’s midterm elections, City and State Pennsylvania reports.

• Pennsylvania’s high court on Friday ruled in favor of “ballot curing” in which some counties contact voters to correct errors in mail-in ballots, AP News reports.

• Pennsylvania’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee has found himself ushered into James Browne’s chair at Philly Cuts, a barbershop on Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia. If he wants to beat his Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano on Election Day on Nov. 8, he’s told, he’d better sit down, City and State Pennsylvania reports.

It’s officially voting season, which means it’s time for us to show up and make our voices heard early for the future of our communities.

Participating in our democracy is something worth celebrating. The New PA Project Education Fund is excited to partner with When We All Vote to get people out to vote early with a "Party at the Polls" celebration in Delaware, Montgomery and Northampton counties!

The midterm election on November 8th is just weeks away and it’s time for our communities to come together, and exercise their right to vote. Get your voting squad together and head on over to the party!

Friday, November 4

11-1pm ET

Saturday, November 5

11-1pm ET

Saturday, November 5

11-1pm ET

Please be our guest to Accelerating Toward Justice, an AFJ reception to say thank you to our many supporters and allies. The event will be hosted at the REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on the evening of November 2nd from 6-9 PM.   

Space is limited - Please RSVP Soon! 

Though short, it will be a blockbuster program. Our special guest for the evening will be Dana Remus, Partner, Covington & Burling. As the former White House Counsel, Dana has been instrumental in helping to reshape the federal judiciary. We also plan to recognize two AFJ members that have made our democracy more representative, NARAL and New Pennsylvania Project, as well as honora Bolder Advocacy user, Trans Queer Pueblo, for their pioneering work in Arizona.   

Your investment in our work will help us register Pennsylvanians in underrepresented and often neglected communities of color. Every cent counts towards our goal.

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