Requiring voters to show ID every time they vote is a barrier to voting. Contact your state representative and senator, and members of the relevant committees, and ask them to vote against such a requirement.
You can find your representatives’ contact information here.
The Senate Bill in question can be found here.
Here are some helpful talking...
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Here are some blog posts, article and links that you may have missed.
2 Political Junkies: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Wrap Monday’s Papers in “Vote for Freedom…Defeat Obama” Bags – I know times are tough for the print media, but this is just sad and pathetic. Tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — a newspaper which has endorsed Sen....
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Here are some blog posts, article and links that you may have missed.
Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » Wonkette Sexy Election Parties Coast 2 Coast & Around the World – Pittsburgh makes the list of sexy election parties.
State ordered to be ready sooner with paper ballots – PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania election officials...
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Image via WikipediaThere are a number of groups recruiting and coordinating volunteers for election day outside of the campaigns. Here are the groups we know of, and we have included training dates that we know. Some of these groups are working on non-partisan activitees too.
League of Young Voters - will be doing...
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From the PaHotsheet.com…
Make sure every cote is counted correctly! Write a letter to the editor urging County Executive Dan Onorato to have voting machine software verified ASAP!!!
Electronic voting machines have been in PA for a few elections now, but the Allegheny County hasn’t certified the authenticity of the software, which can be hacked...
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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeP208 - Click here to see other events around the 2008 Elections in Western PA. Know of an election event in town? Please leave the a comment with the event details here. Click here to see the Progress Pittsburgh Calendar.
Everybody VOTE, is a nonpartisan collaborative that works to...
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With the presidential election just under 30 days away and the voter registration deadline behind us – it is now 100% focus on election day. Here is a video that looks at some of the Election Protection efforts and challenges in Pittsburgh in 2004.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqSkzJ9eV2k
For more information about voting and voting rights in PA…
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Image via CrunchBaseJust 1 day left to register to vote in the great state of Pennsylvania to vote for the Presidential election in November, 2008.
If you are on Facebook there is an easy easy to make sure your friends are registered to vote. The Everybody Vote Facebook application! http://apps.facebook.com/everybodyvote/
Everybody VOTE is a non-partisan...
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Another Jet/Golf Scandle? – from one of the comments at the Burgh Report
Pa. ranked 38th most bike-friendly state – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – The Washington-based League of American Bicyclists has been designating individual communities as bike-friendly since 2003, but this is the first...
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