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Bloomberg: Pelosi Urges FCC to Scrutinize $5.4 Billion Tegna Takeover
members of Congress have voiced their concern,” Yosef Getachew, Media & Democracy program
director at the advocacy group Common Cause, said in an interview. Common Cause has asked the
FCC to deny the merger.
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Center for Public Integrity: Rhode Island eases absentee ballot restrictions, but strict voter ID remains
“It was waived in 2020 and for fall elections, and sure enough, we set a record for number of mail ballots,” said John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island. “Part of that is that it was the height of the pandemic. But we think we’re going to see a permanent shift in an increase of voting by mail.”
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Center for Public Integrity: A headlong rush by states to attack voting access — or expand it
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Center for Public Integrity: In North Carolina, GOP legislature wants control over federal elections
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Center for Public Integrity: Oregon improves voting access while targeting misinformation, harassment
Titus said the state could revisit further expanding its automatic voter registration system to allow registration to occur through other state agencies in the coming years.
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Center for Public Integrity: In Indiana, extreme gerrymandering and low voter turnout go hand-in-hand
“Very rarely do we get the opportunity to talk about proactive, pro-voting rights or legislative changes. We are often trying to prevent bad things from happening,” Vaughn said. “We’re like that little boy who sticks his finger in the hole on the side of a dike to stop it from flooding, but we often times don’t have enough fingers.”
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Center for Public Integrity: New Mexico makes it easier to register to vote
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Center for Public Integrity: Massachusetts widens early and mail voting, but local disparities persist
Left out of the VOTES Act was something advocates say could remove a major barrier for lower-income people in Massachusetts: same-day voter registration.
“Lower-income voters and...
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Center for Public Integrity: Colorado makes it easier to vote while guarding against conspiracy theorists
Hill said a goal of Colorado Common Cause, criminal justice reform organizations and other voting rights groups in the next year or two is legislative action or a ballot initiative to fully restore the voting rights of people serving prison sentences for felonies. If successful, Colorado would join only Maine, Vermont and Washington, D.C.,...
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Associated Press: Criticism over latest NC redistricting back at Supreme Court
The legislative seat boundaries also keep discriminating against Black voters, said Hillary Klein, a lawyer representing Common Cause.
Klein and another attorney said legislative maps remained skewed toward Republicans and fail to give Democrats the same chance as the GOP to win governing majorities should they receive similar statewide voter support as...
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Reuters: Outside allies help Republican U.S. Senate candidates close gap with Democrats
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PolitiFact: Not all results will be known on election night 2022. That’s normal