جوناثان ميهتا شتاين هو أحد مؤسسي مبادرة كاليفورنيا للتكنولوجيا والديمقراطية، وهو مشروع لمجموعة الحكم الصالح كاليفورنيا كومن كوز، التي تقدم المشورة للمشرعين بشأن التهديدات التي تشكلها التقنيات الناشئة على الديمقراطية. ويشير إلى الاستخدام المتزايد للذكاء الاصطناعي في الانتخابات في جميع أنحاء العالم كدليل على أنه لم يعد مجرد نظرية، بل ممارسة نشطة. في الشهر الأول من عام 2024، أثبتت عمليات التزييف العميق التي تروج لمعلومات مضللة في الانتخابات في بنجلاديش وسلوفاكيا أنها تسبب اضطرابات انتخابية كبيرة. هنا في الولايات المتحدة، لا يزال هناك الكثير من الناس الذين يخشون أن تكون هذه التكنولوجيات الجديدة قادرة على إحداث تغييرات كبيرة في الانتخابات.

“It’s that baseline of service that really affects how people think about their government,” said Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York, a government reform group. “It’s not about speeches and the big issues; it’s about whether you’ve made a noise complaint and nobody gets back to you for a week.”

For Lerner, head of Common Cause, the city’s recent budget cuts — coupled with a struggle to fill vacant positions and a hiring freeze — could hurt the Adams administration’s ability to maintain the nuts and...

"It targets specific instances when the government has used APRA to stonewall specific requests, like RIDOT's decision to withhold accident data it collects from all of Rhode Island's municipalities," says John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island.

"With respect to the Washington Bridge emails," he said of emails for which different media outlets were charged anything from zero to $450 for the same 236 pages, "the bill would lower the costs by doubling the amount of free search time given for each...

“At the end of the day, this corrupt legislation means that we don’t have money we could be spending on other things,” Executive Director of Common Cause Ohio Catherine Turcer said.

HB6, in part, gave two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) coal plants a consistent stream of revenue, from Ohioans.

“To the tune of $153,000 per day,” Turcer said.

2023 was a challenging test of New York’s elections. Voters endured persistent legal fights over redistricting and a congressional election scandal that captured national attention. It’s no surprise that trust in government continues to decline nationwide. With changing congressional boundaries and a contentious election season looming, voters face an even busier year.

That’s why lawmakers must work quickly to institute guardrails that address existing gaps in our laws and protect voters from the threat of...

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, said while no one was hurt, the attempt to poison or kill an election worker is despicable.

"It's to destabilize our elections and to scare the public servants who run them," Mehta Stein pointed out. "And to make all of us more fearful of participating in our democracy."

Mehta Stein blamed the rise in threats to election workers on the litany of false conspiracy theories claiming the 2020 election was rigged.

"We have to find a way...

وقال جيف فوستر، المدير التنفيذي لمنظمة Common Cause Massachusetts، إنه لا توجد قواعد في الدستور بشأن كيفية إدارة المؤتمر ولا توجد ضمانة، حتى التعديل الأول، ستكون آمنة.

وحذر فوستر قائلا: "إننا نواجه خطرا كبيرا وضررا كبيرا محتملا لكل ما هو منصوص عليه بالفعل في دستورنا إذا فتحنا صندوق باندورا هذا".

وأشار فوستر إلى أن المؤتمر قد يسمح للمندوبين غير المنتخبين ومجموعات المصالح الخاصة بترسيخ أجندتهم في وثيقة تأسيسية.

While the Voters Choice Act was never intended to be a panacea for all voting challenges facing California, one thing is very clear: The law is a reform worth revisiting and reinvesting in, and still holds promise for expanding electoral participation across the state and across many voting groups.

Colorado Common Cause, which supported the plaintiffs’ case with an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief before the Colorado Supreme Court, on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court “to set a critical legal precedent to safeguard the future of American democracy.”

“The Supreme Court must embrace its role as an active defender of our Constitution, or else it may crumble under the immense pressure it will surely face in the years to come,” Aly Belknap, the group’s executive director, said in a statement.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of the voting rights group Common Cause New York, said that only U.S. citizens can vote in New York state.

"Permanent residents and people authorized to work here are documented and approved by the federal government," Lerner said. "They pay state and federal taxes, and pay into Social Security as well. In many cases, they’ve lived in the United States for decades. There is nothing ‘illegal’ about them."