Protect PA’s Existing Pro-Voter Reforms

From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org):

We fought for years to pass Act 77 in the Pennsylvania Legislature in 2019 — the historic bipartisan election reform bill that gave every Pennsylvanian the right to vote-by-mail, among other groundbreaking reforms that made voting more convenient and secure than ever before. [1]

But now, our Republican lawmakers are trying to slash away at the system they passed, rolling back many of our hard-won reforms because they’re unhappy with the results of our November election.

Their most worrying efforts: limiting the amount of time Pennsylvanians have to register to vote and request a mail-in ballot … cracking down on the use of ballot drop boxes and other crucial accessibility measures … and even adding needlessly strict signature requirements for all mail-in voters.

We must protect the essential pro-voter reforms we fought for in Act 77. Go to https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/our-lawmakers-must-protect-our-historic-bipartisan-election-reforms/ to tell the Legislature that any efforts to limit our right to vote are undemocratic, discriminatory, and just plain wrong.

No matter how you feel about the outcome of our November election, we should all be happy about the record turnout — and the fact that this election has repeatedly proven to be one of the most secure in Pennsylvania’s history.

But instead of celebrating this massive accomplishment, some lawmakers are launching an egregious attack on our right to vote — attempting to make it harder than ever to cast a ballot, especially for voters in many Black and Brown communities.

This simply doesn’t make sense. Our voting system was created by our Republican-led Legislature, and it produced the results in November that were upheld by multiple audits, recounts, and court cases.

Rather than putting up additional barriers and hurdles to voting, our lawmakers should be focusing on eliminating voter suppression and expanding our freedoms, not taking them away.

The Pennsylvania Legislature’s efforts to score political points at voters’ expense are unacceptable. Our lawmakers must shut down these anti-voter efforts before they cause even more damage.