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Nov. 7 is the 2023 municipal election, but voters will elect more than municipal representatives.
Statewide judicial races are on the ballot: Supreme, Superior, Commonwealth and two judges' retainments.
Judges decide if laws are legal based on a carved-in-stone constitution written by drafters in the 1700s, or as a living document reflecting our evolving society.
Vote to decide which.
There are 29 League of Women Voters groups throughout Pennsylvania. Candidates have websites and local and regional newspapers cover candidates' positions and promises.
Local officials decide important matters that impact your life: what books you can read in a library, how human data figures into regional budgets, what can be built down the street from you, how your fire department is funded, which school buildings will be replaced or renovated, which roads are maintained/plowed, building codes, whether solar will be encouraged, public transportation routes, and laws about how we treat fellow community members.
This Nov. 7, vote for the people you want making those decisions.
About 20% of eligible American citizens aren't even registered to vote.
They could swing any election if they chose. While 75% of Pa.'s registered voters turned out in the 2020 presidential election, "off year" elections pull just 20-30%.
Your vote counts in every election -- and even closer to home in this one.
Kathleen O'Connell
Lemont