Voting Issues

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is committed to ensuring that all citizens are able to cast their votes and have them accurately counted. The ACLU has routinely represented voters and candidates in election contests in order to protect the right to vote and the right to participate in a fair election process.

General Voting Rights

• Voter Card for Primary 2010 (379K pdf)
• Rights of Canvassers (25K pdf)

Ex-Felons' Right to Vote in Pennsylvania

• Fact Sheet: Voting Rights of Ex-Felons in Pennsylvania (updated 9/27/08)
• Press Release: Pennsylvania Parole and Probation Officers May Be Erroneously Telling Parolees and Probationers They Cannot Vote, Says ACLU (9/3/08)

Passive Electioneering

• Press Release: Voters Are Allowed to Wear Partisan T-shirts and Buttons at Polls, Says PA Secretary of State (9/8/08)
• Press Release: ACLU Seeks to Intervene to Stop Dress Code for Pennsylvania Voters (9/29/08)
• Kraft v. Harhut, et al (Case information about lawsuit over passive electioneering)

Press Releases

• Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Charging Racial Discrimination In Chester County Vote 01.20.2010
• Judge Rules That Port Authority's Rejection of Voting-Rights Ad Violated First Amendment 07.31.2009
• ACLU Files ACORN Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Pennsylvania Voter-Registration Law 07.22.2009
• PA House Committee Passes Voting Reform Bill, Draws Praise from ACLU 03.25.2009
• ACLU of PA Calls Voter ID Bill 'Worst Kind of Election Reform,' Urges Committee to Vote No 03.23.2009
• Students Wait Six Hours in Pouring Rain to Cast Votes 11.05.2008
• ACLU Seeks to Intervene to Stop Dress Code for Pennsylvania Voters 09.29.2008
• Voters Are Allowed to Wear Partisan T-shirts and Buttons at Polls, Says PA Secretary of State 09.08.2008
• Pennsylvania Parole and Probation Officers May Be Erroneously Telling Parolees and Probationers They Cannot Vote, Says ACLU 09.03.2008
• ACLU of PA Criticizes Congresspeople Who Voted to Burden Americans' Right to Vote 09.21.2006

Legal Cases

• English, et al. v. Chester County (African-American students deprived of right to vote by inadequate polling place)
• ACORN v. Tom Corbett, et al. (Challenge to Pennsylvania voter-registration law)
• Kraft v. Harhut, et al (Voters not allowed to wear T-shirts endorsing candidates at polling places)
• League of Young Voters, et al. v. Port Authority of Allegheny County, et al. (Port Authority refuses to run bus ads)