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纽森签署全国首部法律，应对不受监管的人工智能对民主的威胁
CITED 法案中的两项开创性法案已签署成为法律
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阿丽亚娜·马莫莱霍
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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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随着各州为邮寄投票做好准备，有关首次投票者和英语水平有限的选民的新报告为加州提出了重要建议
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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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共同事业发布洛杉矶县 2020 年 3 月初选新投票系统报告
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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.
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USC Study Recommends Changes in Selection of Redistricting Commissioners
“The removal of seven of the 14 Latinx finalists by legislative leaders has been controversial, especially because the strikes are shrouded in secrecy, compared to an otherwise transparent selection process,” said Kathay Feng, Common Cause national redistricting and representation director. “The closed-door striking of finalists … leaves open the question of why so many qualified Latinx applicants were removed from the pool, undermining the voters’ mandate of creating a commission that reflects the state’s racial and ethnic...
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Common Cause, League of Women Voters and Fmr Gov. Schwarzenegger Applaud the California Supreme Court Extending Deadlines for New Voting Maps
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Tensions mount over who will draw California’s new political maps
“The legislative strikes could have increased the Latino percentage further,” he said. “Not only did they not do that, they made Latino underrepresentation worse. There were truly exceptional Latinos and Latinas removed by the Legislature.”
