Election Protection Volunteers Needed!

Help protect the vote on Primary Election Day 2009, May 19.

You can volunteer as little as 3hrs or All Day! New volunteers must attend training. Experienced volunteers are not required to attend a training but can pick up their toolkits, receive a briefing on May 19th and then be deployed to their assigned polling site. All volunteers must talk with EP Coordinators first before showing up on May 19th. We need attorneys, students, and members of faith groups, non-profits, unions and community organizations to help “Protect The Vote” on May 19, 2009 in Allegheny County. We are committed to protecting voters in “Each and Every Election” by informing voters of their rights, making sure that every vote is counted and every voice is heard.

Contact: Celeste Taylor – B-PEP Vice-Chair, Director, PA Voice Election Administration & Protection, 412-670-0937 ♦ taylor.celeste@gmail.com

Our non-partisan effort has been and will be monitoring these issues:

  • Voter Purges

  • Partisan voter challenges, voter intimidation and deception

  • Unprocessed Voter Registrations

  • Obstacles to student voting

  • Voting Machine problems

  • Poll worker training and shortages

  • Disability access
  • Language barriers
  • Voting Machine allocations
  • Incorrect use of emergency and provisional ballots

EP TRAININGS:

(1) Thurs., May 14, 5:30-6:30pm
Hill House Association
1835 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15219

(2) Mon., May 18, 6-7:30pm

Freedom Unlimited, 2201 Wylie Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (next to NAACP)

ELECTION DAY!!!

Tuesday – May 19th, 6am – 9pm

Staging area will be at Freedom Unlimited, 2201 Wylie Ave., Training available throughout day. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner provided along with all materials, partner at your polling sites and access to legal team. (Limited no. of $25 GE stipends)

Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Pat
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Tuesday ARRA Weatherization Hearing - H’burg

This in from our partners at PA VOICE and League of Young Voters Education Fund.

The League of Young Voters Education Fund

Urgent! Please consider attending this meeting on Tuesday and testifying in support of using weatherization capacity to: improve the quality of jobs created, develop more robust career pathways for workers, bundle weatherization work in specific areas and allow for weatherization of multi-family housing.
Governor Edward G. Rendell announced this week that the commonwealth’s proposed plan for federal weatherization assistance funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now available online and will be open to public testimony, May 5, during a hearing in Harrisburg. Written comment is also encouraged.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide $252.8 million to Pennsylvania over three years for the state’s weatherization assistance program, which is designed to help low-income households decrease energy consumption and costs while increasing their comfort, health and safety. The commonwealth received 10 percent of its grant award on March 27.

The public hearing will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5, in Hearing Room 4, Plaza Level, of the Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North St., Harrisburg. Additional information on the hearing is available on DCED’s Web site, newpa.com.

Anyone who wants to provide public testimony can contact Yvonne Adams at 717-787-1984 to be scheduled. Written comments may be submitted to Jameseeta Reed, director, Center for Community Empowerment, 4th Floor, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North St., Harrisburg, PA 17120 until 5 p.m. on May 5.

Weatherization Assistance Program suggested policy asks:

  1. Use the added weatherization capacity to improve the quality of jobs created
  2. Develop more robust career pathways for workers to gain additional skills training and connections to careers in the building trades
  3. Create pathways out of poverty by providing training and employment opportunities for people of color and low income individuals
  4. Bundle weatherization work in specific areas in order to create economies of scale
  5. Allow for weatherization of multi-family housing, which will create more jobs and allow for larger energy savings

Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by Pat
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B-PEP, REMP & Green Innovators partner on ARRA Priorities

Everybody VOTE & PA VOICE partner B-PEP’s Regional Equity Monitoring Project (REMP) played a lead role with Pittsburgh Green Innovators and Penn State University’s Extension Service in leading a facilitated planning session focused on identifying community-driven, sustainability-based priorities for portions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. Over 50 people from across Pittsburgh and Allegheny County participated in the session, representing the for-profit, non-profit, academic, government, grass roots, labor and community development sectors.

Event partners established core collaborative values and shared priorities to begin capitalizing on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities offered by ARRA funding, and to help establish a shared, open process for establishing recommendations and increasing access to funding that can have a real impact on our Pittsburgh neighborhoods and communities across Allegheny County.

The 4/28/09 meeting was the first in what participants determined would be a series of meetings to establish recommendations to City and County officials, to share resources and information, and to begin to establish a long-term collaborative effort to help build a more sustainable Pittsburgh region. Subsequent open meetings on May 12 and May 26 provided additional information and updates from participants on ARRA opportunities, and set priorities and recommendations for outcomes from the 4/28 meeting, including core values, strategies to broaden participation and recommendations on three key areas of ARRA Department of Energy funding.

Check the meeting information, support materials and outcomes below, and look for information on future meetings and how you can be a part of the process in future updates from REMP and Pittsburgh Green Innovators.  Share your thoughts here or at the Pittsburgh Green Innovators site!

Summary Outcomes on Attendee Priorities: core values / outreach / ARRA recommendations

Summary of Participant Priorities

Meeting Agenda & Goals 04.28.09

Session Agenda Presentation 04.28.09

Meeting Attendees & Sign-In Sheets

April 28 Meeting Outcomes

Core Values of the Collaborative

Expanding Participation / Building the Collaborative

Participant Info on ARRA Specifics

Initial Funding Priority Recommended Focus Areas

Follow-Up / Next Meeting / Next Steps

May 12 Meeting Outcomes

Updates, Concerns & Resources - 5.12.09

Priority Core Values of the Collaborative from 5.12.09

Priorities to Increase Collaborative Participation from 05.12.09

Follow-up and Next Steps from 05.12.09

Attendee Sign-in Sheets 05.12.09

May 26 Meeting Outcomes

Updates, Concerns & Resources - 5.26.09

Recommendations for ARRA Funding to Improve Energy Efficiency

Recommendations for ARRA Funding for Reducing Energy Use at Participating Entities

Recommendations for ARRA Funding for Reducing Fossil Fuel Emissions

Attendee Sign-in Sheets 05.26.09

Links & Resources

Allegheny County ARRA Funds Breakdown

Senator Bob Casey’s Guide to ARRA

Green For All Bringing Home the Green Recovery

Gov. Rendell 3/23/09 letter to Department of Energy

PA State ARRA Implementation Report 04.23.09

NY State Stimulus Oversight Committee: Common Principles 02.20.09


Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Pat
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By the numbers…how’d we do?

Our partners at Pennsylvania VOICE just compiled and released
our first two reports on the work that PA VOICE and their
collaborative of over 40 nonpartisan organizations across
Pennsylvania. They put together a press release with basic
information for folks in the media, as well as a
preliminary report covering our overall work in 2008, and
a report on election administration and protection that
details the unprecedented work that PA VOICE partners
undertook in 2008 in ensuring every Pennsylvanian's
right to vote.

If you're looking for detailed initial analysis of the 2008
Pennsylvania election, there's no better source than our
national partners at NVEN compiled on
Voter Turnout In Pennsylvania.

Thanks to all our partners for their hard work.

We welcome your comments and input.

Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Pat
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Election Day Photos

We have just added some new election day photos to flickr.  If you have pictures to share please join the Everybody Vote Flickr Group and share your pictures too.

Posted on November 20th, 2008 by everybodyvote
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Yikes! What an election

Thanks to all the great efforts from our partners in Election Protection efforts and in getting out the vote among new and traditionally under-performing constituencies. Special respect to all of our partners in the Election Protection Coalition, the Center for Civic Participation’s State Voices network and the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network. We couldn’t do our work in Pennsylvania without our good partners.

Rock!

Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Pat
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Voting at the East Liberty Carnegie Library

Posted on November 5th, 2008 by everybodyvote
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Election Protection at the Freedom Unlimited Office

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Wesley AME Zion and YMCA Polling Places in the Hill

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Voting at the Hill House

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