Satellite Election Offices and Drop Boxes
Ensure that counties have the funds they need to routinely offer satellite election offices and drop-box options to voters.
E-Poll Books
Improve election security and accuracy by relying on real-time data. These tools also can help redirect voters in the wrong polling place to the correct location, notify a person in real time he or she already voted early by absentee or mail-in ballot, or register voters in same-day voter registration.
Expanding Language Access (interpreters, printing materials, etc.)
Section 203 of the National Voters’ Right Act covers localities where there are more than 10,000 voting age citizens or over 5 percent of the total population in a single political subdivision, county, township or municipality who are members of a single language minority group, have depressed literacy rates, and do not speak English very well. Of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, only Berks, Philadelphia, and Lehigh are mandated to have bilingual election information based on the act. But many more communities would provide language access to growing non-English speaking communities with adequate support.
Poll Worker Training
Overstretched county election offices struggle to make sure that all poll workers are trained adequately, and to hold accountable elected precinct workers. With adequate funding, they could do more to ensure every poll worker receives the training they need.
County Equipment for Running Secure Elections
Voting machines, envelope openers, sorters, scanners, cyber security software, etc. --- all of these assets are necessary to ensure counties have what they need to administer elections safely, securely, fairly, accurately and efficiently.