Mar
23
Women Surpass Men in Voting Rates Women lead when it comes to voting: more women are registered to vote than men, and since the 1980’s more women have been voting in elections. Studies show there is also a gender gap for party affiliation with more women identifying as Democrats than...
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Mar
08
Although the 19th Amendment gave American women the right to vote in 1920, many Black women, particularly in Southern states, were denied that right until the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. The Fight for Women’s Suffrage White, Black, and Native American women began fighting for voting rights in the...
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Mar
07
56 years ago today, future Representative John Lewis lead a group of activists on a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The unarmed group was stopped and violently assaulted by police as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge just outside Selma. The gruesome event came to be known...
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Mar
03
Another census has come and gone, and that means it’s time for redistricting. Each state legislative district must contain the same number of people. Every 10 years, legislative districts are redrawn based on census data. Unfortunately, the process for doing so does not prevent the new maps from being gerrymandered...
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Feb
24
Voter turnout is, of course, highest for presidential general elections and lowest for municipal primaries. In Lancaster County, municipal primaries rarely see more than 14 % of all registered voters participate. May 18th is our next primary election, and LCDC wants more Democrats to participate! Primary elections serve to determine...
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Feb
20
We have dozens of Democratic candidates running for local office, and they need your help! Candidates are now in the petition circulation period. They need to gather the signatures of Democratic voters within their precinct, municipalities, and/or school districts in order to get onto the ballot. This is where they...
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Feb
15
At its annual meeting this past weekend, the Lancaster County Democratic Committee (LCDC) announced the adoption of a Resolution Against Sedition by its members. The resolution calls for the resignation of U.S. Representative Lloyd Smucker for his objection to Pennsylvania's Electoral College results after the deadly insurrection at the U.S....
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Feb
13
Today at its first-ever fully virtual annual meeting and endorsement convention, the Lancaster County Democratic Committee voted to endorse in a number of races at the municipal, county, and state level. “We try to do a public service by making our endorsements, especially in crowded primary elections” said Diane Topakian,...
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Jan
08
Friends-- January 6, 2021 is another date that will live in infamy. On Wednesday, the nation, and the world, witnessed a lawless mob overtake the U.S. Capitol in a forceful attempt to circumvent democracy. This was a violently attempted coup, encouraged by Donald Trump himself. We are glad these insurrectionists...
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Jan
06
Today a joint session of Congress will meet to count the Electoral College votes, officially declaring Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President. Yet Lancaster County's own Rep. Lloyd Smucker has publicly stated he will object to the count, disregarding the will of the majority of Pennsylvanians...
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