Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com By Emily Migdal, Staff Writer On September 19th, 2023, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced that he was implementing automatic voter registration in the commonwealth.[1] Under this policy, Pennsylvania residents will automatically be registered to vote when obtaining or renewing a driver’s license or state ID, streamlining […]
By Edward Walsh, Staff Writer The Ohio redistricting woes continue for Ohio legislators as the state Supreme Court’s February 7th decision rejected their most recent map proposal.[1] This marks the third rejected proposal since the initial ruling in 2019 by a three-judge panel from the US Federal District Court for Southern […]
Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By Margaret Potter, Blog Editor Imagine your state is holding an election, and you are seeking to exert your constitutional right to vote. But wait – the past month has been filled with turmoil regarding a global pandemic that has resulted in thousands of deaths […]
By: Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer Currently, forty million Americans have a disability.[1] Of those forty million disabled Americans, sixteen million voted in 2016.[2] That shows a mere 40% of disabled citizens vote, compared to the 58% of United States citizens, as a whole, that voted in 2016.[3] Many issues […]
By Matt DeSantis, Staff Writer The unprecedented nature of this election cycle and its final result have inspired closer inspection of the voting process and the laws that govern it. While the U.S. Constitution relegates certain election laws to the states, the states must still comply with all other […]
By Maura Perri, Staff Writer With the 2016 presidential election now in the past, many of us can take pride in the fact that we exercised our civic duty in an effort to effect change in the United States. Did you, however, perhaps take this pride too far? This […]
