{"id":195874,"date":"2026-05-18T19:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:47:07","slug":"philly-da-city-commissioners-team-up-for-election-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195874\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly DA, city commissioners team up for election security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Hot election<\/p>\n<p>Voters will head to the polls on what could be one of the hottest primary days ever.\n<\/p>\n<p>The city has <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-code-red-extreme-heat-homeless-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a Code Red<\/a> starting at noon Monday through 8 p.m. Wednesday, due to the forecast of three straight days of a heat index of 95 degrees or above.\n<\/p>\n<p>Bob Brady, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party, said the surprise sunshine and hot weather could help bring people to the polls instead of keeping them away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be strange, we\u2019ve never had it that hot, and I hope it\u2019s going to bring out the vote,\u201d Brady said.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Brady predicted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/3rd-congressional-district-democratic-primary-gaza-progressive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3rd Congressional District race<\/a> will bring out voters. For other races, the only names on ballots are candidates for the Democratic Committee, who are the truly grassroots part of the system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all important. I mean, you know, people die for this. This is a right, you know, people die for the right,\u201d Brady said. \u201cThey want to get out and express themselves.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Sabir said in the last midterm primary vote, less than 1 in 4 people voted in Philadelphia. He expects low turnout again this time around.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a decline in vote-by-mail requests from 2022 to now. So that normally, kind of, may dictate it may be lower than usual. Again, we\u2019ll see,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>With sunny skies and no rain in the forecast, Sabir said it\u2019s always possible that turnout is higher than expected.\n<\/p>\n<p>Voters can report any problems they encounter to the DA\u2019s Election Task Force hotline at 215-686-9641.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot election Voters will head to the polls on what could be one of the hottest primary days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25694,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-195874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-elections-2026","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}