10 Philly tech folks who already voted (and why you should too)

The big day is here, everybody.
Today, America heads to the polls by the millions. No matter who you’re voting for today, your opininon will be counted as equal to your fellow Americans. And because the tech scene doesn’t live in a bubble of its own, folks from all spaces of the Philly tech scene also made their civic statement since early this morning.
Often a tech-scene bellwether, entrepreneur and investor Josh Kopelman headed to his polling place early this morning. He mentioned long lines, like plenty of people did since the wee hours of the morning.

Never seen a line this long at my polling place. Ever. At least 100 people deep. #Decision2016 #PhillyVotes

— Josh Kopelman (@joshk) November 8, 2016

TechGirlz founder Tracey Wellson-Rossman, who has been volunteering for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as part an organization called Jewish Women for Hillary, voted early out in the Philly suburbs.

Reporting from the polls outside of #Philly. Long lines and no Republican signs in sight! #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/vBDMtv9FzU

— Tracey Welson-Rossman (@TWelsonRossman) November 8, 2016

Another early-bird voter was the City of Philadelphia Director of Entrepreneurial Investment Archna Sahay, with her trademark power heels and water bottle at the ready. (Ask Archna about said power heels and StartUp PHL at the upcoming #AskPhilly sesh this Thursday.)

Getting the day started off right…standing in line to VOTE!!! #Philly pic.twitter.com/w00Yj1ZJch

— Archna (@ArchnaSahay) November 8, 2016

Cipher Prime and Free the Vote’s Dain Saint rocked a We Can Be Better T-shirt at the polls today. He also had some good news about his campaign to get companies to offer employees Election Day off: Curalate, StratIS, BuLogics, Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners and Solutions for Progress also joined the bandwagon to let workers go vote.

Get out and vote. There's too much at stake. #Vote2016 #FreeTheVote #WeCanBeBetter pic.twitter.com/gyjmHnMn3X

— Dain Saint (@dainsaint) November 8, 2016

MilkCrate founder Morgan Berman had a cute lil voting story. As she got to the end of the line to vote, who was checking her into the polling place but her AP History teacher from high school, Helen Grady (who, turns out, is the mother of PIDC President John Grady).

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Stephen Tang, president and CEO of the University City Science Center (who just last week was emceeing the formal launch of the Microsoft Reactor Philadelphia), was another early bird at his polling place.

We got no pic from Webjunto’s Liz Brown, but she went all tech with a flashy GIF on Twitter:

It is #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/g4cY0vzAhn

— Liz Brown (she/her)✊🏿🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈👩‍💻🎙️ (@lizbrownsays) November 8, 2016

Just in case you had any doubts, Comcast’s Danielle Cohn is #WithHer:

Voted! Very cool to see a woman in the top spot. #pantsuitnation #imwithher #runlikeagirl #torsella 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️✌🏽️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mPHMZwEzhI

— Danielle Cohn 🚀 (@daniellecohn) November 8, 2016

And last but not least, civic tech power duo Dawn McDougall and Tim Wisniewski also tackled their democratic duty early in the morning, though, alas, their polling place ran out of stickers:

They don't have stickers but we voted and you should too! It's a very cool thing to do pic.twitter.com/1bP2lBopbR

— Dawn McDougall (@de_mcdougs) November 8, 2016

And like these 10, many other members of the Philly tech community made the time to push their buttons of choice. They carved an hour or two out of meetings, coding or Slack to side with their candidate of preference. If they all made it, why can’t you? Don’t miss out on your one chance to make a statement and make your voice be heard.
Wanna see some more Philly tech folks voting? Check out #PhillyTechVotes or share your pics with us at @TechnicallyPHL.