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    Philly American Experiments features tools to encourage voter participation

    Photo collage by Patrick Morgan. See a Storify of the American Experiments Showcase. On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, techies and activists packed into the University City Science Center’s Quorum space to advertise their wares for the “American Experiments” showcase. Sponsored by the nonpartisan watchdog group the Committee of Seventy, […]

    Article · July 27, 2016 by

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    Philly play connects civil rights struggles to importance of voting today

    Photo of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. Throughout the week of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia the nonpartisan good government group the Committee of Seventy is putting on a play about the battle for voting rights. On Tuesday morning, three actors and two musicians played “Voices of Voting” to a packed house […]

    Article · July 27, 2016 by