{"id":457,"date":"2024-01-22T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:59:47","slug":"legislative-priorities-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Priorities for 2024"},"template":"","class_list":["post-457","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"From preserving the right to cast a mail ballot to promoting ethics and accountability in government, we'll continue to fight for a government serves the people in the place where American democracy was created.\r\n","featured_image":null,"article_type":226,"authors":null,"related_issues":[105,107,109,471,473],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023, we welcomed a new executive director and continued our mission to defend the tenets of democracy and fight for the right of every Pennsylvanian to be heard. From preserving the right to cast a mail ballot to promoting ethics and accountability in government, we engage at the state and local level to empower citizens and ensure that our government serves the people in the place where American democracy was created.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2024, our priorities include:<\/span><b><\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Defending Pennsylvanians\u2019 right to vote by mail.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Millions of Pennsylvanians have voted by mail in recent years. In 2024, we can improve our system further by ensuring equitable and convenient access to ballot dropboxes, allowing counties to process mail and absentee ballots before Election Day, and requiring counties to notify voters of defective ballots and allow them to fix any defects that would disqualify their vote.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Modernizing our voter registration system.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Before a voter can choose whether to vote early in person, by mail, or on Election Day, they need to register. In 2023, Pennsylvania adopted automatic voter registration at the DMV, a significant victory for Pennsylvania voters that will also help to improve the accuracy of the voter rolls and reduce costs for election administrators. We can improve that system by implementing automatic voter registration at more state agencies designated by the Secretary of State, investigating ways to streamline voter registration updates between agencies, and allowing voters to register to vote or update their voter registration at their polling place on Election Day.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Advancing independent citizens redistricting commissions. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our election districts are drawn by politicians and their appointees. Pennsylvanians deserve a fair, citizen-led redistricting process that puts our communities first. This year, we will advance proposals to implement independent, citizen\u2019s redistricting commissions in Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Supporting election administrators. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have the utmost respect for the professionals that administer our elections. To help ensure that they can continue to run our elections safely and accurately, we urge state and local governments to provide sufficient election funding and uniform, comprehensive training to all poll workers. We also support legislation that would establish penalties for those who harass or threaten election workers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ensuring access to voting in jails and prisons.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Most people in jails are not convicted of any crime, but are unable to pay bail. Individuals who are incarcerated, but who have not been convicted of a felony, are constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote; but too often, that right is denied. This year, we will support legislation to protect the right to vote from jail.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Implementing standards for post-election audits.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We support bipartisan legislation to institute risk-limiting post-election audits, the gold standard in ensuring accurate election results reporting.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ensuring everyone's vote truly counts in presidential elections. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In two of the past six presidential elections, the candidate who won the most popular votes lost the election. This year, we will support efforts to change this winner-take-all Electoral College system by activating the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/our-work\/voting-and-elections\/national-popular-vote\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Popular Vote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compact here in Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legislative Priorities for 2024 - Common Cause Pennsylvania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legislative Priorities for 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Pennsylvania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/pennsylvania\/articles\/legislative-priorities-for-2024\/\",\"name\":\"Legislative Priorities for 2024 - 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