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Groups Urge Census Changes to Accurately Count Prison Populations For Redistricting

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Groups Urge Census Changes to Accurately Count Prison Populations For Redistricting

Today, Common Cause and the Prison Policy Initiative urged the U.S. Census Bureau to change how it counts prison populations each decade. The Bureau’s use of differential privacy, the intentional infusion of inaccurate information into population data, creates unnecessary miscounts in data used by state and local officials for redistricting. In a letter to Director Robert L. Santos and other senior officials, the groups emphasized that the populations of correctional facilities are already publicly available and that differential privacy is...

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David Vance

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Katie Scally

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Ariana Marmolejo

Regionaler Kommunikationsstratege (West)
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Jennifer Garcia

Regionaler Kommunikationsstratege (Süd)
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Kenny Colston

Regionaler Kommunikationsstratege (Mittlerer Westen)
kcolston@commoncause.org

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Washington Post: Supreme Court to consider fundamental change in elections authority

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Washington Post: Supreme Court to consider fundamental change in elections authority

Legal battles over partisan and racial gerrymandering “are as North Carolina as barbecue, tobacco fields and hot, humid summer days,” says the executive director of the state Common Cause chapter.

North Carolina Common Cause Executive Director Bob Phillips said there has not been an election since 1971 in which the state’s redistricting plans have not been challenged.

“In the decade after the 2010 redistricting cycle , every single legislative and congressional election was run on maps that the courts...

CNN: How William Rehnquist led to the new monumental challenge to presidential election rules

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CNN: How William Rehnquist led to the new monumental challenge to presidential election rules

“It is rare to encounter a constitutional theory so antithetical to the Constitution’s text and structure, so inconsistent with the Constitution’s original meaning, so disdainful of this Court’s precedent, and so potentially damaging for American democracy,” lawyers for Common Cause and the other non-state parties said in their brief.

USA Today/Gannett: Supreme Court pressed to give state legislatures more power to oversee federal elections

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USA Today/Gannett: Supreme Court pressed to give state legislatures more power to oversee federal elections

"To give absolute power to one branch of government, unbound by state constitutions, would lead us down a dangerous road to tyranny," asserted Kathay Feng, national redistricting director for Common Cause, which is opposing the position of the North Carolina GOP lawmakers in the case. 

Austin American-Statesman: Texas’ top elections official, Secretary of State John Scott, to step down

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Austin American-Statesman: Texas’ top elections official, Secretary of State John Scott, to step down

"Confirmation hearings are how we’re supposed to have some assurance that the person in charge of elections in Texas is qualified to do that job," said Katya Ehresman, program manager for Common Cause Texas Voting Rights. "We should all be deeply alarmed by the fact that this is the third person to serve as secretary of state without having ever been confirmed by the Texas Senate. An office of this caliber should not continue to be filled by an unconfirmed and unelected official."

MEDIENMITTEILUNG: Kundgebung vor dem Fall Moore vs. Harper, Pressekonferenz nach der Verhandlung am Mittwoch

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MEDIENMITTEILUNG: Kundgebung vor dem Fall Moore vs. Harper, Pressekonferenz nach der Verhandlung am Mittwoch

Bei Moore vs. Harper handelt es sich um einen richtungsweisenden Fall des Obersten Gerichtshofs der USA. Es geht dabei um ein gefährliches juristisches Argument, das darauf abzielt, die Kontrolle und das Gleichgewicht der Justiz der Bundesstaaten abzuschaffen und den Gesetzgebern der Bundesstaaten nahezu unkontrollierte Macht zur Manipulation der Bundeswahlen zu gewähren.

Tallahassee Democrat/USA Today Network: Why did voter turnout drop in 2022 versus 2018? Strict voting laws, voter arrests, say voting rights advocates

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Tallahassee Democrat/USA Today Network: Why did voter turnout drop in 2022 versus 2018? Strict voting laws, voter arrests, say voting rights advocates

“We know that registered voters with prior convictions and even people who are fully eligible to vote such as people who only have a misdemeanor are concerned or even scared about getting in trouble if they cast their ballots,” said Amy Keith, program director of Common Cause Florida.

Associated Press: As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job

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Associated Press: As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job

Jesse Littlewood, vice president for campaigns at Common Cause, said his group reached out to Twitter last week about a tweet from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that alleged election fraud in Arizona. Musk had reinstated Greene’s personal account after she was kicked off Twitter for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

This time, Twitter was quick to respond, telling Common Cause that the tweet didn’t violate any rules and would stay up — even though Twitter requires the labeling or removal of content that spreads...

Inside Sources/Tribune News Service St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Op-Ed): A productive lame duck — the end of a historic Congress

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Inside Sources/Tribune News Service St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Op-Ed): A productive lame duck — the end of a historic Congress

The last two items are critically important for our freedoms and the health of our democracy. The January 6th Select Committee’s forthcoming report is expected to highlight the former president’s role in fomenting a deadly insurrection and provide recommendations to ensure we have peaceful transfers of power between administrations.

The Electoral Count Act revisions are consequential because they would modernize a law passed in 1887. Updating this antiquated law could help prevent another insurrection and attempted coup.

Media Briefing: How Democracy Will Be Protected in Upcoming SCOTUS Case

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Media Briefing: How Democracy Will Be Protected in Upcoming SCOTUS Case

Common Cause, Southern Coalition for Social Justice and global law firm Hogan Lovells held a media briefing outlining the legal arguments and strategy behind our fight to defend our democracy in Moore v. Harper.

HuffPost: Elon Musk Is Rolling Out Twitter’s Red Carpet For The Far Right

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HuffPost: Elon Musk Is Rolling Out Twitter’s Red Carpet For The Far Right

Emma Steiner, a disinformation analyst at the watchdog group Common Cause, said she knew of new accounts being created on Twitter that were focused on the QAnon conspiracy theory movement, supporters of which call for the mass arrest or execution of public figures they accuse of being satanic pedophiles. Some accounts, Steiner said, are trying to “censorship check” Twitter by seeing what kind of material earns a response from the company ― what she called “a lot of boundary-pushing.”

Steiner noted one recent...

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