I am a nervous voter. Did I sign my name clearly enough? Did I do it right (I got my “I voted by mail” sticker, so I know my mail-in ballot was received)? But I don’t worry about the security...
The Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Center for Business Ethics held a lecture titled “The Duty to Vote” Oct. 29 in Mandeville Hall. Julia Maskivker, Ph.D., George and Harriet Cornell distinguished professor of...
In the months leading up to the Nov. 5 presidential election, St. Joe’s students have partnered with various voter engagement organizations to ensure their peers across campus are registered and ready...
How do you find your designated polling place?
Pennsylvania voters can enter their registered address and zip code into the online search tool provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State to find...
It feels like every election is labeled as “the most important in our lifetimes,” and 2024 is certainly no exception to this. However, the redundancy of these disclaimers should not overshadow just...
As everyone might know by now, we are currently in an election season. Even if you try your hardest to stay away from politics, you’re bound to hear something about the candidates, their policies or...
What is the Electoral College?
The Electoral College is the process by which the president and vice president of the United States are elected. There are 538 electors who make up the “college”...
Gilda R. Daniels, J.D., a voting rights and election law expert, spoke to members of the St. Joe’s community on Oct. 20 about voter suppression and voting rights in the U.S.
Daniels was the first...
Women make up 24% of the 116th Congress; the most diverse Congress since the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. Although women are historically underrepresented in the political sphere, they still...
Staff and contract workers deserve time to vote
As a Jesuit university with a focus on social justice, it is our job to take part in the upcoming election by voting and encouraging others to do the same....
When most people hear the term voter suppression, they think of authoritarian countries where voters are pressured by the threat of violence on the part of the sitting regime to vote one way or another....
