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Election night takeaways
Signs for and against Ohio's Issue 1 are in a lawn covered in fall leaves in front of a church

Issue 1 signs sit outside Knox Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. Issue 1 specifically declares an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including abortion.

(Image: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Election night takeaways

Political scientist Marc Meredith and PORES director Stephanie Perry, who both worked on NBC’s Decision Desk on Election Night with more than a dozen Penn undergrads, share their thoughts on what Tuesday’s results could mean for 2024.

Kristen de Groot

A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
A centimeter-scale quadruped leverages curved-crease origami

Penn Leads the Vote volunteers pose with Penn President Liz Magill, Cory Bowman of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Dawn Deitch of the Office of Government and Community Affairs.

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A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election

Penn Leads the Vote was on hand at the Houston Hall polling location, one of several polling places on campus where voters made their voices heard for the 2023 general election.
Many don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics study finds
The United States map with the preamble of the Constitution written across it.

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Many don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics study finds

Many Americans do not know what rights are protected under the First Amendment and a substantial number cannot name all three branches of government, according to the 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded
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Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication explains that the “positive” interpretation of the First Amendment focuses on government’s affirmative role to help guarantee the public access to a “diverse and informative media system.”

Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens
Newly naturalized U.S. citizens raise their right hands to take the oath of citizenship in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum, with officials on a stage in front of them and an American flag on the right side of the stage.

The naturalization ceremony at the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium featured 37 new American citizens.

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Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens

In keeping with its motto of “bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world,” Penn Global hosted a naturalization ceremony on campus for 37 new citizens.

Kristen de Groot

Young voters and online civic education
A man in a facemask uses a marker to ink the finger of a facemasked woman, as ballot containers and the Moroccan flag are seen behind them.

A voter’s finger is inked after casting a ballot inside a polling station, in Casablanca, Morocco, during general elections on Sept. 8, 2021.

(Image: AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Young voters and online civic education

A collaborative new study by Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences and co-authors looks at the effects of low-cost online interventions in encouraging young Moroccans to turn out and cast an informed vote in the 2021 elections. 

Kristen de Groot

A quieter campus for Philadelphia’s voting day
President Magill standing in front of Houston Hall on Election Day.

Penn President Liz Magill performed her civic duty on Philadelphia’s primary election day at Houston Hall.

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A quieter campus for Philadelphia’s voting day

The primary election follows a lively Commencement and on-campus move-out. But the ballot may determine Philadephia’s 100th mayor.
Civility is on the decline, ABA civics poll finds
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Civility is on the decline, ABA civics poll finds

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only a quarter of people could name all three branches of government, though that figure rose to 56% by 2021.