Philadelphia Eagles' Jeffrey Lurie offers Lincoln Financial Field as polling place in 2020 election

[RandySF]

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said Sunday he offered Lincoln Financial Field as a polling place for the 2020 general election.

There are concerns about crowded polling places during the coronavirus pandemic, and large stadiums and arenas make for alternatives that allow for voters and workers to spread out.

The NBA announced it would turn its arenas into polling places in November as part of an agreement with the NBA Players Association.

Lurie said he wants to do the same in South Philly during a lengthy opening statement to begin a Zoom call with reports Sunday afternoon. Lurie also expressed his desire to raise turnout numbers for the Nov. 3 election at all levels of the ballot, especially in the presidential race between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.


“I don’t think there’s ever been a time when we all realized the importance of voting,” Lurie said. “And voting has ramifications, everybody, as we know, and maybe it’s taken some of us too long, myself included, to realize that, from lower down on the ballot to the highest levels, and we have a very important election coming up on Nov. 3, and one of the things we’ve offered to do is to open up Lincoln Financial Field to be a polling place, if needed. We’re also going to close our offices that day. We’ve encouraged our staff to be volunteers in the pre-polling in terms of registration. Any help we can be to maximize people’s ease of voting, no matter how they’re going to vote, we want to see that happen. Too few people that are even registered to vote, I think it’s like 60%, even vote in this country, and we’re dealing with some really important issues, and I think there’s a chance to really make a difference when it comes to that, and Philadelphia and Pennsylvania are obviously at the epicenter of potential outcomes in the election, so I encourage everybody, and the Eagles will be 1,000% supportive of that effort.”




https://www.pennlive.com/philadelphiaeagles/2020/08/philadelphia-eagles-jeffrey-lurie-offers-lincoln-financial-field-as-polling-place-in-2020-election.html

[Farmgirl1961]

1. Great idea!

I wonder if we can get sporting arenas/stadiums in all 50 states to do this. In the end, if we can't rely on the postal service to deliver our ballots securely, voting in person -- the earlier the better -- may be the better alternative -- pandemic and all.

[Aepps22]

2. Excellent News

Very proud of these sports stars and teams for filling the leadership gap and using their platforms to effect change.

[Leghorn21]

3. This is so great

SO GREAT!!!

[moondust]

4. Republicans can't be happy.

Aren't they the party of closing down polling places in order to suppress the vote?

In light of his other voter suppression efforts with regard to mail-in ballots, USPS, etc., I'm kind of expecting Donny & Klan to do something to try to prevent all these sports venues from serving as polling places.