Thinking about Elections

PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO VOTE. In 2018 The Public Interest Law Center (PILC) won in its lawsuit against gerrymandered voting districts in Pennsylvania. I attended the court case in person and was deeply impressed. I’ve donated to them ever since.

Working with partnering organizations, PILC continues to defend the right to vote. In swing-state Pennsylvania their work is critically important. We need them, but they can’t do what they do without our support. PILC does not charge their clients for services. Please consider donating.

PILC, along with the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, the ACLU are currently working to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from seizing PA voter data. The voter rolls are already publicly available, but the DOJ wants sensitive private information about voters that is against state law to share.

Recent PILC lawsuits defending voter rights:

+ winning a case that requires PA counties to allow/count a voter’s provisional ballot when that voter’s mail-in ballot is disqualified.

+ winning a lawsuit challenging a county’s practice of not informing voters when their mail-in ballot envelope had errors. Since voters were uninformed, they were unable to cure the problem so their votes were not counted.

+ several lawsuits challenging the disqualification of mail-in ballot envelopes that lack a date or have the correct date. (The date is not used to used to verify eligibility.) Current case is pending before the PA Supreme Court.

I’ve followed PILC work since the gerrymandering case in 2018. The range of what they do makes me feel very good about supporting them. Beyond voting rights, PILC works on tenant protection, equitable funding of education across the state, challenging the state’s preemption of local solutions to gun violence, and more.

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