You Have the Right to Vote. Today.
I’m pulling the lever for Dan McElhatton for D.A. and Brett Mandel for controller, as well as a few judges, including Dan Anders. Not that you care. But you should vote. Many people in other countries don’t have this right. And women and African-Americans didn’t have the right until shamefully recently. And many formerly incarcerated people don’t have the right. And people with language barriers often don’t vote because they can’t. People who are disabled are often turned away from non-accessible polls. People in poverty are routinely disaffected from the voting process.
The ACLU’s Voting Rights Project webpage details all kinds of cases in which voting rights are compromised, even in the U.S., even in 2009. I vote because I feel privileged to be able to do so. I’m one of the lucky ones, is how I think about it.
For information on Election Day if you live near me, go to the Committee of Seventy’s website.
liz | 10:17 AM | philadelphia, politics
Yes!! Power to the people!! Make your voice heard!! Vote!!
Don’t forget, your neighbor NJ has a primary two weeks from today….
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