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It’s Voting Time and that means it’s Action Time!
Your appreciation of arts and culture makes it your cause, and your efforts to work in, learn about, and/or attend arts and culture events show that it is a cause you care deeply about. The upcoming General Election is your chance to advance your cause by voting for the candidates that represent your ideas about arts and culture as well as the many other issues that affect your life.
Action Step One - Register to Vote
Pennsylvania law states that the deadline to register to vote is 30 days prior to an election. This means you only have until October 4, 2004, to register. Click here for voter registration information.
Our voter registration services are available without regard to the voter’s political preference. Information and other assistance regarding registering or voting, including transportation and other services offered, shall not be withheld or refused on the basis of support for or opposition to particular candidates or a particular party.
Action Step Two – Who’s On First, or rather Who’s On in PA
Click here for an unofficial list of candidates to find out who’s on the ballot in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Action Step Three – Know Which Way To Go
If you do not know your polling location, click here to contact your county board of elections.
Voting Extras
Civically Unconscious?
Have you been suffering from voter apathy or democracy hypocrisy? Symptoms include lack of interest in the upcoming election, back of mind resignation to not vote, disbelief in the idea that the voice of one vote adds to the sum of many. Well, here are a few motivational facts just for you.
- One vote gave statehood to Texas, California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
- One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in 1868
- One vote saved the selective service system in 1941 – only twelve weeks before Pearl Harbor
- One vote per precinct in Illinois won John F. Kennedy the Presidency in 1960
- One vote in Tennessee, the last state needed to ratify the 19th amendment to the Constitution, won women the right to vote in 1920
- One vote made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi party in 1923
- One vote in 1775 made English, not German, the official language of America
So You Want To Be Of Service
Hankering to volunteer on Election Day, click here to learn how to be a Committee of 70 polling place watchdog.
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