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Angelenos Overwhelmingly Approve Redistricting Reform for LA
Over 70% of Los Angeles voters agree — it’s time for fair maps and a more representative City Hall
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L.A. County Receives Nearly 70,000 Requests for Non-English Language Ballots
“Mailers like L.A. County’s help ensure language stands as a barrier to the ballot for as few voters as possible,” he said. “Every county in the state should use their remaining mailings, before Vote by Mail ballots go out, to share language access information.”
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Nearly 70,000 LA County Voters Request Vote by Mail Ballots in Different Language
"Sending a Vote by Mail ballot to every voter is a critical step for voter access in 2020, but it means that millions of California voters will lose that moment when a poll worker asks them what language they would like their ballot in," said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause."Mailers like L.A. County's help ensure language stands as a barrier to the ballot for as few voters as possible," he said. "Every county in the state should use their remaining mailings, before Vote by Mail ballots go out, to share...
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Keys for getting first-time and limited-English speaking voters to participate in the election
Targeted outreach efforts are crucial for reaching first-time, low-propensity and limited-English speaking voters, write Jonathan Mehta Stein of California Common Cause and Francisco Pedraza, a UC Riverside professor.
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Pedro Toledo, Petaluma health care official, named to state redistricting panel
Common Cause executive director Jonathan Mehta Stein complimented the board’s first eight members for “building a commission that looked a lot like California,” including ethnic minorities, LGBTQ members and people with disabilities. But Stein also noted that Latinos were underrepresented in the pool of applicants “from the very beginning.” “We absolutely could still do better,” he said.
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Attempts to increase young and minority voters is complicated during a pandemic
“There’s a real hunger for more information, simply conveyed, and conveyed in [their] language,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director at California Common Cause.
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Will Trump be enough to get Asian Americans and Latinx to vote?
“Asian American and Latinx are voting at half the rate of the (general) electorate,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, Executive director of California Common Cause to AsAmNews. He pointed to a voter turn out rate of both groups in the low 20s during the California March primary.
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As States Gear Up For Vote By Mail, New Report on First-Time & Limited-English Speaking Voters Makes Key Recommendations for California
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As States Gear Up For Vote By Mail, New Report on First-Time and Low-Propensity Voters Makes Key Recommendations for California
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California Will Let Absent Lawmakers Vote During Outbreak
Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a government watchdog group, said they are not opposed to remote voting provided that lawmakers are participating from a known location and safeguards are in place to make sure they are not being influenced by someone off camera. But he opposed the Assembly’s plan to let lawmakers cast votes by proxy. He said proxies are not allowed to change their vote if new facts or arguments come to light that might be important to consider, undermining the deliberative function of the...
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Democrats for Rent Control or Democrats for Rent?
Still, the big-dollar donations are impossible to ignore, argued Sean McMorris, a policy and organizing consultant with California Common Cause. “Those campaign contributions are going to create goodwill between [industry donors] and politicians — whether they be direct or through independent expenditure committees that benefit a particular candidate. The message is received. Any politician who says they can disconnect themselves from the large sums of money is lying.”
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Common Cause Releases Report on Los Angeles County’s New Voting System in March 2020 Primary Election
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CA120: Say hello to the ‘Lucky Eight’
While the Latino pool had been cut in half, there was still a 90.4% chance, according to Jonathan Stein of Common Cause, that the random draw would select at least one Latino. Yet, against those odds, and much to the consternation of many involved in the process, the first eight selected included zero Latino commissioners.