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Most people vote twice a year. For the most part, it’s a fairly seamless process. Enter the polling place, sign the poll book, close the curtain and cast your vote.
Have you ever wondered who’s in charge of making sure that everything goes smoothly, and that your vote is counted? Is the administration of elections that important? If you aren’t sure-think back to Palm Beach County, Florida in 2000. It matters, a lot.
In Philadelphia, running elections is no small task. It’s kind of like the ultimate pop-up business: twice-a-year hundreds of thousands of voters cast ballots at nearly 1,700 polling places. It has to work well, and we have to trust that it works well. And unlike any other county in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia it’s the full-time job of three people-the City Commissioners-whom you elect.
In this crowded election season the City Commissioner’s race doesn’t get a lot of attention-but we think it should. That’s why Seventy is hosting the only discussion with the candidates for the office of City Commissioner. The event will be held on Tuesday, April 28th from 6 PM to 7:30 PM at Ladder 15 (1528 Sansom St). The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Chris Brennan and Citified’s Patrick Kerkstra are the featured moderators.
This is your best chance to hear from the City Commissioner candidates, men and women who, if they’re elected, are responsible for making democracy work in Philadelphia. Join us to see for yourself who these folks are, what they’ve done, and what they’d promise to do, if elected, to see that every vote counts.
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