Tuesday, Nov. 4 is Election Day. Polls are open until 8 p.m. If you are unsure where to vote we’re going to try to help you out, particularly if you are one of the estimated 30,000 Philadelphians who received a polling place postcard recently with bad info.

The best way to locate your polling station is to go to the PA Votes website and enter your address. You can also check your voter registration status online through the state here. If you’re voting for the first time in a new district, the folks at the polling place will ask for identification if it’s your first time voting there. This is NOT an implementation of the controversial Voter ID law we have heard so much about. This is standard operating procedure (the ID that they will accept is also at that link).

As for the races tomorrow … the state’s top office is on the line as incumbent Tom Corbett (R) and challenger Tom Wolf (D) square off in the most notable race in the city.

Elsewhere, incumbent James Roebuck (D) faces Ernest Adkins (R) in the state’s 188th Representative District. Roebuck defeated Adkins handily in the 2012 general election. Incumbent Anthony Hardy Williams is running unopposed in State Senate District 8. U.S. Rep. Chakka Fattah (D) is up against Armond James (R) for the Congressional seat in District 2.

Three questions are on the ballot as well:

1. “Shall The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter be amended to establish and define the functions of the Office of Sustainability, headed by a Director of Sustainability?” (The Committee of 70 has a “plain English” version here.)

2. Shall The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter be amended to transfer responsibility for managing and operating the City’s jails from the Department of Public Welfare and the Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Prisons to a new Department of Prisons and Board of Trustees? (Plain English version)

3. Should the City of Philadelphia borrow ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($137,295,000.00) to be spent for and toward capital purposes as follows: Transit; Streets and Sanitation; Municipal Buildings; Parks, Recreation and Museums; and Economic and Community Development? (Plain English version).

The Committee of 70 provides some insight into these questions here.

For more details on the candidates and/or the ballot questions you can go to the Committee of 70 website.

– Mike Lyons