This year, Philadelphia’s Elections Board is calling on young people to serve as substitute poll workers on November 4 to help keep lines moving and make sure every voter can cast their ballot smoothly.

Young voters are, and have always had some of the lowest voting turnouts in elections. This year that number was only 47 percent of youth coming out to vote in the presidential election.

Each Saturday, during the hectic presidential election season, I walked up to hundreds of doors. Some were cracked open, vacant, others slammed in my face, yet some were home to listening ears. I was there to talk about voting, to remind people, to explain ballots, and to answer questions. But the truth is, I ended up learning more than I ever expected. Soon, I was collecting stories, immigrants, citizens, voters, and non-voters alike, all had one thing in common on the doors

Let’s travel back in time to 2020, the year the world shut down as coronavirus spread. I was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. Suddenly, my friends and I no longer communicated in the cafeteria during lunchtime or on the way to class. Our lives moved online.

We woke up to a new world. But no worries,  we’ve got this 

Youth voting is trending all over America; it only made sense to create an event that would highlight and support these efforts.

By Kyla Downs March for Our Lives, a youth-led movement that began after the 2018 Parkland, FL, school shooting, has a policy titled “It...

Democracy means voters choose their politicians. Current Pennsylvania law lets politicians choose their voters.

Redistricting occurs after the census to ensure that each lawmaker’s number of constituents in their district is proportional to the populat

So how can you help? How can we ensure that the now-fair Pennsylvania maps stay fair? Easy: you #VoteThatJawn. Everything that has happened

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