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South Kensington Community Partners

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Extends Vote By Mail Deadline, Allows Drop Boxes.
Sam Gringlas, NPR.


The court extended the deadline for accepting mail ballots, will allow voters to submit their ballots through drop boxes and removed the Green Party's candidate for president from the ballot. Mail ballots will now be accepted if they are received by 5 p.m. on the Friday after the election and were either postmarked by Nov. 3 or there is no evidence to suggest they were sent after Election Day. Previously, mail ballots had to be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Though the decision will enfranchise more voters — it will also mean that a final vote tally will take longer to certify. Under current Pennsylvania law, clerks cannot begin counting mail ballots until Election Day. In other rulings Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court also upheld a state law that poll watchers must be registered to vote in the county where they're observing the polls.

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Poll Workers Wanted!


Poll workers are key to any efficient election and we need your help recruiting people to be poll workers.
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  • What: Sign up to be a poll worker on election day.

  • Who: Anyone who is 18 years old and registered to vote can be a poll worker.

  • When: Tuesday, November 3rd from 6:00am until the ballots are picked up at the end of the night.

  • Where: Polling locations will be assigned by the City Commissioners office

  • Why: Poll workers are essential to an efficient election. You can help make sure everyone can vote quickly and easily on election day.

  • How: Sign up online and share on social media.

Poll workers receive a stipend for their time. Training is available online and in person.

Philly is opening 17 early voting locations across the city.  Here’s where. 

Jonathan Lai, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Early voting is coming to neighborhoods across Philadelphia. City elections officials are set to approve a plan next week to open 15 satellite elections offices — 14 are in public schools, one is in the Liacouras Center at Temple University — where voters can request, receive, fill out, and submit a mail ballot in one stop. People can also visit the offices to register to vote, request a mail ballot to take home and submit later, or to drop off a completed mail ballot. Those 15 temporary satellite offices are in addition to the two permanent elections offices, one in City Hall and one on Columbus Boulevard at Spring Garden Street.
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