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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 12, 2022 11:16 AM
From: Senator John I. Kane and Sen. Carolyn T. Comitta
To: All Senate members
Subject: Updating the Poll Worker Oath in the Election Code
 
We are reintroducing legislation to modernize the oath that Pennsylvania poll workers take. A constituent who serves as a poll worker during the primary and general elections requested this legislation. This legislation would add gender neutral language to the oath instead of the antiquated language that only uses male identifiers and removes references of outdated electoral methods such as a poll worker tallying votes that are read by a Judge or Inspector of Elections. The vote tallying work is now completed by county election workers.
 
It is important that all Pennsylvanians, regardless of gender identification, feel represented when fulfilling their duty as valuable poll workers. Additionally, it is important that the oath represent the actual work that poll workers will perform.
 
Last session, this legislation was introduced as Senate Bill 1359. It was cosponsored by Senators Fontana, Cappelletti, Costa, Collett, Tartaglione, Muth, Dillon, Schwank, Brewster, Haywood, and Street.
 
We hope you will join us in supporting this targeted and important update to our Election Code.
 
 



Introduced as SB604