Pennsylvania

All Voting Pennsylvania secured major language access victories in 2025 that make it easier for voters whose primary language isn’t English to register to vote and engage with the election process. For instance, following targeted advocacy tactics and broad coalition support, Montgomery County added multilingual voter registration materials to its official website, introduced Chinese-English sample ballots for the first time, and appointed a bilingual immigrant affairs officer to support implementation. These milestones represent critical progress in making voter registration more inclusive for limited-English proficient voters in Pennsylvania’s third-most populous county. All Voting PA’s sustained leadership in the language access sphere ensures that more voters in the Commonwealth, especially immigrant and marginalized communities, can get and stay registered.

Seven days before the 2025 primary, All Voting Pennsylvania and its partners were notified that Philadelphia had received only 10 percent of its mail ballots due to a series of ballot delays. Alongside our coalition group, the team quickly created and executed a program to track down outstanding ballots in Philadelphia and ensure they got turned in. As part of this plan, advocates in the state started calling and texting affected voters, and the final mail ballot return rate reached 70 percent in just a matter of days. This rate is still lower than preferred, but it would have been significantly lower without advocacy intervention.