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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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Ohio Capital Journal: Discussions underway to propose new redistricting reform to Ohio voters

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Ohio Capital Journal: Discussions underway to propose new redistricting reform to Ohio voters

“This process could have worked,” said Catherine Turcer, executive director of Common Cause Ohio. “It should have worked, and we have constitutional officers who have refused to actually follow what Ohio voters have put in the (state) constitution.”

“You’re talking about these folks, they’re drunk on power,” Turcer said. “And when people are drunk, what do you do? You take away their car keys.” ...

“What is super clear to me is that the Ohio Constitution gives us the opportunity to tackle...

Salon: Experts warn Supreme Court supporting ‘dangerous’ GOP legal theory could destroy US democracy

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Salon: Experts warn Supreme Court supporting ‘dangerous’ GOP legal theory could destroy US democracy

Speaking of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing of Moore v. Harper during a Monday webinar co-hosted by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Kathay Feng, national redistricting director at Common Cause, said that "the date has yet to be set, but what we do know is the question at issue: Whether state legislatures should be given absolute and supreme power to create voting laws and redistricting maps for congressional elections."

Feng blasted what she called the GOP's "down and dirty" map rigging as "illegal and...

Common Cause fordert „Ja“-Stimme für Gesetzentwurf zum Schutz der Volkszählung vor politischer Manipulation und Missbrauch 

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Common Cause fordert „Ja“-Stimme für Gesetzentwurf zum Schutz der Volkszählung vor politischer Manipulation und Missbrauch 

Common Cause fordert alle Mitglieder des US-Repräsentantenhauses auf, mit „Ja“ zum Gesetz zur Gewährleistung einer fairen und genauen Volkszählung (HR 8326) zu stimmen, um sicherzustellen, dass künftige Volkszählungen nicht dem beispiellosen Ausmaß an Amtsmissbrauch und Politisierung ausgesetzt sind, das die Volkszählung 2020 geplagt hat. Der Brief betont die entscheidende Bedeutung einer transparenten und genauen Zählung aller Menschen in den Vereinigten Staaten in jedem Jahrzehnt, wie es unsere Verfassung vorschreibt, da diese Zählung die Regierung, die öffentliche Politik und die Haushalte des Landes für eine lange Zeit prägt...

Boston Globe: In R.I., new pattern of voting methods taking shape

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Boston Globe: In R.I., new pattern of voting methods taking shape

John M. Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, said the state will need a few election cycles to gauge what the new permanent voting pattern will be, but this year is bound to see an increased percentage of voters casting ballots by mail and early voting as compared to pre-pandemic levels.

“In 2020, tens of thousands of people tried voting early or by mail for the first time and many of them liked it,” Marion said. “And that is what we have seen in other states: As you make voting more convenient and...

New Results: Common Cause Releases “Our Democracy 2022” Candidate Surveys for First Election Since January 6th

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New Results: Common Cause Releases “Our Democracy 2022” Candidate Surveys for First Election Since January 6th

Common Cause today released initial results of its Our Democracy 2022 candidate questionnaire in the leadup to the first election since January 6th. With two months to go before Election Day, more than 100 candidates for Congress, including in certain swing House and Senate races, responded on how they promise to defend and strengthen our democracy.

Boston Globe: Attack ad aimed at boosting Gorbea draws fresh fire

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Boston Globe: Attack ad aimed at boosting Gorbea draws fresh fire

John M. Marion, executive director Common Cause Rhode Island, on Friday said his organization is considering filing a complaint with the state Board of Elections over the ad, which is titled “Who’s Worse?”

Common Cause pushed for a 2012 political spending transparency law in response to the US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, and the law requires ads by outside groups to list the top five donors to those groups. But Marion noted that the Latino Victory Fund ad did not list its top donors.

Salon: Election officials preparing for worst-case scenarios: Violence around the midterms

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Salon: Election officials preparing for worst-case scenarios: Violence around the midterms

Threats have become so commonplace that election clerks consider it a part of their job, said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas.

"These election administrators keep saying that they report things to law enforcement or local DAs and nothing happens, like nobody's being prosecuted," Gutierrez said.

Common Cause, which does election protection work, is also looking at potential ways to hold people who attack election workers accountable. What has complicated that task, Gutierrez and others...

WHYY: Delaware’s first ‘election protection’ program launches ahead of state’s primary vote

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WHYY: Delaware’s first ‘election protection’ program launches ahead of state’s primary vote

Common Cause of Delaware executive director Claire Snyder-Hall says the poll monitors will be in place in Wilmington, Dover, Lewes, and Rehoboth Beach.

“One of the reasons we’re happy to have the election protection field program on the ground this year is because a lot of the voting laws have changed recently,” Snyder-Hall said. Changes include an expansion of early voting, vote by mail, same-day registration, and no registration deadlines.

“Consequently, we expect that some voters might be confused by...

Associated Press: Support of false election claims runs deep in 2022 GOP field

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Associated Press: Support of false election claims runs deep in 2022 GOP field

“I don’t want to give them more power than they actually have to undermine us and our faith in the election process,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for expanded voter access. “We have a huge infrastructure with thousands of election officials and checks and balance. In places where there are bad intentions to harm voters, we are all working to ensure those don’t happen.”

Tallahassee Democrat: How did your Florida lawmaker score in the Democracy Scorecard by Common Cause?

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Tallahassee Democrat: How did your Florida lawmaker score in the Democracy Scorecard by Common Cause?

“Officeholders are deciding on matters that present a choice between a fundamental belief in democracy or authoritarian rule; between you and me having power in our vote and voice, or others taking that way from us,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause in a prepared statement with the Scorecard’s release. 

See the full results at https://democracyscorecard.org.

Boston Globe: R.I. Board of Elections calls for new protocols after ballot problems

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Boston Globe: R.I. Board of Elections calls for new protocols after ballot problems

John M. Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, attended Wednesday’s meeting and tweeted, “Big takeaway for me is that there was no process in place that could have caught these mistakes. It’s a new technology implementation, which is hard, but there is a lot we could have learned from other states that have had them for years.”

Marion and Steven Brown, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, noted that the printed ballots voters received after using the touchscreen are...

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