Keystone Votes

Keystone Votes KV is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations joined together to update Pa’s election system.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act (VRA) piece by piece for over a decade....
06/10/2026

The U.S. Supreme Court has been systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act (VRA) piece by piece for over a decade. It’s most recent decision to invalidate Section 2 of the VRA leaves historically marginalized voters at the mercy of elected officials who can now freely and legally disenfranchise them all over again — the exact problem the VRA was intended to remedy.

Last year, state House Speaker Rep. Joanna McClinton pushed through a suite of voting rights reforms in known as the Voting Rights Protection Act. Given these recent court actions, her reforms are even more important today, Pennsylvania Voice Executive Director Salewa Ogunmefun writes in PennLive.com. Read it here. ⤵️

The Supreme Court's dismantling of the Voting Rights Act demands that our General Assembly establish state-level protections to safeguard the franchise for communities of color.

PA Voice Executive Director Salewa Ogunmefun discusses the SAVE Act, legislation under consideration that would "fix" a ...
05/06/2026

PA Voice Executive Director Salewa Ogunmefun discusses the SAVE Act, legislation under consideration that would "fix" a "problem" that doesn't actually exist, and urges legislators to take up commonsense election reforms to make it easier for all eligible voters to cast their ballots.

As the midterm elections in November draw closer, renewed attempts to undermine our democracy are on the rise. Instead of creating confusion and introducing prohibitions that make voting more difficult, we should be considering ways to make voting more accessible for all eligible voters. Recently, S...

PA Department of State Secretary Al Schmidt has the facts on noncitizen voting. "Putting so many resources behind lookin...
04/09/2026

PA Department of State Secretary Al Schmidt has the facts on noncitizen voting. "Putting so many resources behind looking into something that there’s really no evidence is occurring in any way that’s widespread or systematic … results in eligible citizens being disenfranchised from that process, and certainly can do more harm than good," he tells Votebeat.

Al Schmidt might have more experience identifying noncitizen voters than anyone else.

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