Topic: Voting
The Ballot Questions in the 2025 Primary Election
This year’s proposed changes to the Home Rule Charter address homeless services, prison oversight and affordable housing
By Courtney Duchene and Lauren McCutcheon
Vote for Qualified Judges This Election Season
Want to know who they are? Here’s how the Philadelphia Bar Association rates them
By Marc Zucker and Matt OleshYu-Shan Chou, Voting Interpreter
For her deep commitment to making sure immigrant communities are empowered — and represented — Yu-Shan Chou is one of this year’s 2025 Integrity Icons.
By Rachel Wisniewski
Polling Places in Jails
A way to get more people voting and make our communities safer? That’s what happened with a Colorado program Pennsylvania could easily replicate
By Malcolm Burnley
My School Votes …
… thanks, in large part, to the work of the high school winner of Vote That Jawn’s Erinda Sheno Memorial Prize essay contest.
By Miran Andriyevsky
Rethinking the Worst Phrase in History
The college winner of Vote That Jawn’s first Erinda Sheno Memorial Prize wants us to act now in the way we want history to remember us
By Olivia Loudon
Want Your (Political) Independence?
Sorry, you can’t abandon the major parties — because Philly needs your primary vote. We also need open primaries. Here’s how that might actually happen
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Hello? Is It PA Voters You’re Looking For?
Post Election Day, both major political parties have — once again — abandoned the state they spent so much time in. A local political consultant on why they must listen to voters every year
By Mustafa Rashed
Who Won the 2024 Election in Philadelphia?
The results of the November 5 general election in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
By Lauren McCutcheon
Scenes From An Election
We cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, with Philly panache and optimism
By Sabina Louise Pierce and Olivia Kram