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Albuquerque Journal (Op-Ed): Ethics issues likely affected Albuquerque city elections
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PolitiFact: On Nov. 7, 2023, Pennsylvania voting machines were “flipping votes,” which is evidence of “election fraud.”
"This is a programming error that is being weaponized for disinformation purposes," Philip Hensley-Robin, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, told PolitiFact.
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The Hill (Op-Ed): Internet voting remains a risky method of casting election ballots
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Politico: Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution
“The worst case scenario is that [an Article V convention] puts all of our cherished constitutional rights and civil rights completely up for grabs,” Stephen Spaulding, vice president of Common Cause, testified at Johnson’s subcommittee hearing last month.
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PolitiFact: Dispelling a common myth about fentanyl as election workers get letters with traces of the substance
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Senate Judiciary to Issue Subpoenas to Donors Involved in SCOTUS Ethics Scandals
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Washington Post: Noncitizen voting campaigns elicit different results in liberal Md. suburbs
“The more that municipalities pass these reforms, show that young people are capable of voting, the more we can push them elsewhere. … My hope is that we’ll come back to these things again,” she said.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: New Texas law puts Tarrant County Republican primary in ‘jeopardy,’ GOP leader says
“The biggest issue is election administration and making sure that we can do that well funded and equitably, and that’s not something that Senate Bill 924 created an issue with,” Ehresman said. “That’s something that...
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Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer:‘Dozens’ of Ohio State University students say they never got their mail ballots, voting advocates say
Mia Lewis, associate director of Common Cause Ohio, said they’ve encountered these students as they’ve showed up at polling places this morning on OSU’s campus to try to vote.
Lewis said that other than in college towns, state data doesn’t show an unusually high number of outstanding absentee ballots...
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WUNC (NPR): Here’s what you need to know about the new voter ID law
Host Jeff Tiberii sat down with Tyler Daye, policy and civic engagement manager for Common Cause North Carolina to discuss a host of issues, including which IDs are valid, whether or not an expired driver's license can be used at the polls and how to obtain a valid ID for free.
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Salon: Ohio Republicans use taxpayer funds to boost “absolutely false” anti-abortion claims ahead of vote
Turcer said canvassers reported that constituents...
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WHYY (NPR Philadelphia): N.J. is sending ANCHOR property tax rebate checks right before the election. Some pro-democracy watchdog groups question the timing
“Everyone needs to take a lot of caution in ensuring that the perception is not that there are different tactics being used for electioneering purposes or to influence the vote,” she said. “The perception of a move like this, to send money to voters in the 30 days just preceding an election could certainly raise some suspicions.”