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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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ABC News: How Twitter’s $8 verification plan works and why it’s facing criticism

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ABC News: How Twitter’s $8 verification plan works and why it’s facing criticism

Emma Steiner, a disinformation analyst at government transparency advocacy group Common Cause, said the new subscription service worsens pre-existing problems that owe to the trust engendered by the platform's verification model.

"At Twitter, there's been a long standing disparity between what Twitter says a check mark is for: Authenticity," Steiner told ABC News. "And what people interpret it as: Authority."

"The new policy makes this division more confusing," she added.

USA Today/Gannett: Voters must be patient for election results, Georgia group says

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USA Today/Gannett: Voters must be patient for election results, Georgia group says

With one of the most anticipated Senate races in the country being decided in Georgia today, the state's Common Cause chapter is reminding voters that it may take days before the final results are known. ...

“It’s crucial every voice is heard in this election and that means counting every vote,” Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said in a statement. “It takes time to count every vote accurately and that’s why Election Day is not results day.”

Reuters: Elon Musk’s Twitter slow to act on misleading U.S. election content, experts say

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Reuters: Elon Musk’s Twitter slow to act on misleading U.S. election content, experts say

The nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause, which monitors social media for voter suppression efforts, said that Twitter took no action on high-profile posts that the organization flagged on Tuesday as problematic.

Common Cause said Twitter posts from Republican candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake should have included warning labels under the company's civic integrity policy, which governs misleading tweets about elections. Posts by Greene and Lake drew tens of thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter.

Associated Press: Mishaps, distrust spur Election Day misinformation

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Associated Press: Mishaps, distrust spur Election Day misinformation

“We have never certified an election on election night,” said Sylvia Albert, director of elections for Common Cause, a non-profit group that has been tracking election misinformation. “This is nothing new. It’s just people trying to undermine faith in elections.”

Associated Press: Election scrutiny high, but US votes without major hitches

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Associated Press: Election scrutiny high, but US votes without major hitches

“There are attempts to use those election administration and voting machine issues that election workers are working to fix to spin a disinformation campaign,” said Jesse Littlewood, vice president of campaigns at Common Cause, which advocates for voting access.

New York Times: Elon Musk Puts His Own Politics on Display on Election Day

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New York Times: Elon Musk Puts His Own Politics on Display on Election Day

Common Cause, a pro-democracy advocacy group, said this week that it had flagged several tweets pushing false narratives, such as that election results not announced on Tuesday night are a sign of fraud. The group said that “it has taken Twitter much longer than normal to adjudicate” whether the posts violated its policies, a process that usually takes less than three hours but was unresolved after more than three days.

USA Today/Gannett: A tense nation casts a vote for smooth midterm election despite Arizona voting issues

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USA Today/Gannett: A tense nation casts a vote for smooth midterm election despite Arizona voting issues

"What we are seeing are things that we usually see on Election Day," Susannah Goodman, director of election security for Common Cause, told reporters. "There are glitches in the system, but election administrators have learned from the past and they have resiliency built in." ...

And then there were issues that voting rights groups described as "weird."  

A priest in Toledo was unexpectedly checking the identification of voters, said Catherine Turcer, executive director of Common Cause of Ohio. In Summit...

Washington Post: Voting was relatively smooth. Now comes the counting.

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Washington Post: Voting was relatively smooth. Now comes the counting.

But Suzanne Almeida, director of state operations for Common Cause, said late Tuesday that monitors were relieved by how quiet the day had been.

“I am happy to report that today has been relatively quiet on the political violence front,” she told reporters late Tuesday. “We were absolutely prepared for more significant incidents, but they simply have not come to fruition.”

NPR: Voting rights advocates say there have been no major concerns so far

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NPR: Voting rights advocates say there have been no major concerns so far

Susannah Goodman, director of election security for the government watchdog group Common Cause, says some polling sites are seeing their lines of voters grow because of issues with voting machines, including ballot scanners that need fixing. ...

But Goodman stresses there are no major concerns so far.

"These are things we see in every election cycle. There are glitches in the system. But election administrators have learned from the past and they have resiliency built in."

CNN: Voting goes mostly smoothly on Election Day as baseless fraud claims swirl

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CNN: Voting goes mostly smoothly on Election Day as baseless fraud claims swirl

“What we are seeing are things that we usually see on Election Day,” said Susannah Goodman, director of election security at Common Cause. “Sometimes voters are going in and one of the voting machines isn’t working, or lines are a little longer.”

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