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宾夕法尼亚州共同事业组织启动 2024 年选举保护计划
“在选民热情高涨的同时，我们希望确保所有选民都了解自己的权利，并能在选举日自由投票。”
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Redistricting reformers want changes to how political maps are drawn
After years of attempting to get lawmakers to change how state legislative and congressional districts are drawn, redistricting reform advocates had to drop attempts to have political maps drawn by an independent commission.
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宾夕法尼亚州共同事业呼吁以“我们人民”为中心的公平、透明的重新划分选区程序
建议包括“最终的立法区地图在从州范围考虑时，不应过分偏向或不利于任何政党、候选人或现任者。”
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Hearings begin this week on Pennsylvania legislative, congressional redistricting
The first of the hearings in Harrisburg will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, and feature presentations from advocacy leaders and experts including Common Cause of Pennsylvania Executive Director Khalif Ali, Fair District PA Chair Carol Kuniholm and Temple University’s Lee Hachadoorian.
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Redistricting advocates tell Pa. House leaders that transparency an absolute necessity in mapping process
Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, recommended that lawmakers start from a blank map, disregarding any existing boundaries and building their own based on public testimony. It might take longer to create, he said, “but we believe that the time spent will result in a map that will be far more representative to the people of the Commonwealth.” Could this practice disadvantage current incumbents? Sure, but protecting incumbents shouldn’t be the goal of redistricting, Mr. Ali said.
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划分国会选区的建议：“从空白地图开始”
“我们认为重新划分选区应该是公平、可行和政治中立的。最重要的是，我们认为，要取得成功，重新划分选区过程必须有意确保每个宾夕法尼亚州人，无论邮政编码、种族、民族、母语或职业如何，都有平等的机会选出与他们有共同价值观和生活经历的代表，”宾夕法尼亚州共同事业执行董事 Khalif Ali 将告诉委员会。
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WATCH: A live reader Q&A on how lawmakers spend millions of taxpayer dollars on perks
On Wednesday, July 28 at 5 p.m., Spotlight PA’s Angela Couloumbis; Sam Janesch, Brad Bumsted, and Mike Wereschagin of The Caucus; and Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, participated in a free Q&A on state lawmaker expenses.
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Pa. GOP lawmakers promise ‘new level of transparency’ in Congressional redistricting plan
“We look forward to working with members of both parties — and, most importantly, Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, and other communities of color who have historically been left out of the redistricting process — to ensure that everyone in Pennsylvania has an equal opportunity to be represented by someone who shares their values and lived experience,” Executive Director Khalif Ali said. “As part of that work, we will be supporting communities in presenting testimony and drawing maps that allow them to tell their...
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众议院共和党人宣布国会重新划分选区透明度措施
“我们赞扬宾夕法尼亚州议会，特别是多数党领袖克里·本宁霍夫、众议员温迪·托马斯和主席塞思·格罗夫今天致力于实现透明、可及和参与性的国会选区重新划分进程。”
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Gov. Wolf’s Vetoes Save Voters’ Access, Save Taxpayers $100+ million
'We – and the taxpayers of Pennsylvania – thank Gov. Wolf for his vetoes today. Today’s vetoes help quantify the financial cost of the anti-voter legislation being passed around the country. In actual dollars-and-cents, making it harder to vote would have cost $99 million in upfront costs and another $19 million in annual recurring costs.'
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Keystone Votes Coalition Urges Veto of H.B. 1300
Members of the nonpartisan Keystone Votes coalition today urged the governor to veto House Bill 1300, a sweeping but controversial set of GOP-backed legislative election reforms.
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Pennsylvania Senate Passes Anti-Voter Bill
The state Senate has just passed HB 1300, a package of voting law changes that includes provisions to make voting more difficult, particularly for Black, Brown and low income voters. We thank Governor Wolf for his promise to quickly veto it
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Pennsylvania Senate Votes to Create ‘Barrier to Casting a Ballot’
Legislators who seek to ‘legislate by constitutional amendment’ devalue our state’s Constitution. If our elected officials want to create barriers to voting, they can attempt to use the ordinary legislative process. In fact, that’s already underway.