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Gruppen fordern Änderungen bei der Volkszählung, um die Gefängnisbevölkerung für die Neugliederung der Wahlkreise genau zu erfassen

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Gruppen fordern Änderungen bei der Volkszählung, um die Gefängnisbevölkerung für die Neugliederung der Wahlkreise genau zu erfassen

Heute forderten Common Cause und die Prison Policy Initiative das US Census Bureau auf, die Art und Weise zu ändern, wie es die Gefängnisbevölkerung alle zehn Jahre zählt. Der Einsatz von Differential Privacy durch das Bureau, also die absichtliche Einfügung ungenauer Informationen in die Bevölkerungsdaten, führt zu unnötigen Fehlzählungen in den Daten, die von staatlichen und lokalen Behörden zur Neugliederung der Wahlkreise verwendet werden. In einem Brief an Direktor Robert L. Santos und andere hochrangige Beamte betonten die Gruppen, dass die Bevölkerungszahlen der Justizvollzugsanstalten bereits öffentlich verfügbar seien und dass Differential Privacy...

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Wahlfreiheitsgesetz stellt großen Fortschritt dar

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Wahlfreiheitsgesetz stellt großen Fortschritt dar

Der ausgehandelte Rahmen des Freedom to Vote Act stellt für die Bevölkerung einen großen Schritt nach vorne dar. Er zeigt, dass der Senat daran arbeitet, einen Weg zu finden, um dieses wegweisende Gesetz in Kraft zu setzen. Dieses Gesetz wird unsere Wahlfreiheit stärken, sodass wir alle, unabhängig von politischer Partei, Herkunft oder Wohnort, in Zukunft für unsere Familie und Gemeinschaft gleichberechtigt mitreden können. Das Gesetz führt zu einer gerechten Aufteilung der Kongresswahlbezirke und beendet die Wahlkreismanipulation für immer. Es enthält auch wichtige Schritte zur Eindämmung von Geheimgeldern in...

ABC News: Biden stands by Newsom, warns the country’s future is on the ballot in California’s recall election

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ABC News: Biden stands by Newsom, warns the country’s future is on the ballot in California’s recall election

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan, liberal-leaning political advocacy organization, told ABC News that such claims should be expected.

"There will inevitably be claims that the election is rigged because the purveyors of the 'big lie' need these local and state elections in between the major national elections to keep up their momentum; but all of their allegations in the November 2020 election fell flat," Stein said. "There's nothing new under the sun here. And we assume that...

Sacramento Bee/Inside Sources (Op-Ed): Congress must make Constitution’s promise a reality

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Sacramento Bee/Inside Sources (Op-Ed): Congress must make Constitution’s promise a reality

Constitution Day honors our founding charter, as amended. It celebrates an enduring commitment to freedom and a democracy where all of us are supposed to have an equal voice in the decisions that affect our country, no matter our ZIP code, what we look like, or how much money we have in the bank.

But from its inception, the Constitution denied democracy — at times violently — to whole swaths of people: indigenous people; enslaved people; Black people; women; the unhoused; immigrants; those who do not own property — the...

Associated Press: Indiana Republicans may seek to bolster congressional hold

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Associated Press: Indiana Republicans may seek to bolster congressional hold

Common Cause Indiana executive director Julia Vaughn criticized Torchinsky’s work as “more political than legal” to assist with partisan gerrymandering. ...

Legislative Republicans held nine public redistricting hearings around the state last month without any proposed maps for review. The only hearings planned with the maps in hand will start the day after they are released on Tuesday and will only be held on weekdays at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Vaughn and other activists have unsuccessfully pushed...

CNN: 2013 Voting Rights Act ruling could make it easier for states to get away with extreme racial gerrymandering

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CNN: 2013 Voting Rights Act ruling could make it easier for states to get away with extreme racial gerrymandering

To analyze whether a map is Voting Rights Act-compliant, one needs to look at past election results, often at the precinct level, and not every state offers such information in a single database, according to Kathay Feng, the national redistricting director for the voting rights group Common Cause.
"You would have to go to each county, and each county would give it to you in a slightly different format, and you have to figure out how that all could be put together," Feng said

Sinclair Broadcast Group/KATV: The new Texas voting law: What it does and does not do

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Sinclair Broadcast Group/KATV: The new Texas voting law: What it does and does not do

“Rather than making it easier for Texans to vote for elected leaders who will prioritize our health and safety above their political ambitions, Governor Abbott has just attempted to silence voters from being heard in the next election,” said Stephanie Gomez, associate director of Common Cause Texas, one of the organizations suing over the new law.

Associated Press: Coalition presses for transparency in state redistricting

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Associated Press: Coalition presses for transparency in state redistricting

“The Reapportionment Commission must take all necessary steps to make sure the new district maps are drawn in a fair and transparent process the public can easily understand,” John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, said in a statement.

Bloomberg Government: Beaches, Bears, Vineyards, and Pencils: Ballots & Boundaries

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Bloomberg Government: Beaches, Bears, Vineyards, and Pencils: Ballots & Boundaries

“Maintaining communities of interest intact in redistricting maps should be second only to compliance with the United States Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act as a consideration in redistricting,” according to redistricting principles outlined by the watchdog group Common Cause.

Facebook und Twitter ziehen sich aus der Bekämpfung von Desinformation bei Wahlen zurück

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Facebook und Twitter ziehen sich aus der Bekämpfung von Desinformation bei Wahlen zurück

Eine neue Untersuchung der Desinformationsanalysten von Common Cause hat ergeben, dass die Social-Media-Giganten Facebook und Twitter offenbar von der Durchsetzung ihrer eigenen Richtlinien und Durchsetzungspraktiken abgerückt sind, wenn es um die Bekämpfung von Desinformation im Zusammenhang mit Wahlen geht. Das Whitepaper „Trending in the Wrong Direction: Social Media Platforms' Declining Enforcement of Voting Desinformation“ zeigt, dass die Social-Media-Plattformen ihre Praktiken zur Entfernung oder Kennzeichnung gefährlich falscher Behauptungen offenbar drastisch zurückgefahren haben ...

Washington Post: New Texas voting bill deepens growing disparities in how Americans can cast their ballots

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Washington Post: New Texas voting bill deepens growing disparities in how Americans can cast their ballots

“We’ve had a very functional system of election administration,” said Common Cause Ohio Executive Director Catherine Turcer, adding, “It is genuinely surprising that after a successful election where more Ohio voters participated than ever before, that any legislator would think about making it harder to vote.” ...

Turcer, of Common Cause Ohio, said voters’ confidence would grow if they understood the election rules already in place.

“The distrust of election officials and election administration has...

Salon: Georgia GOP called “shameless” for trying to use new voting law to oust local election officials

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Salon: Georgia GOP called “shameless” for trying to use new voting law to oust local election officials

"It appears that they would like to take over the county board of elections," Aunna Dennis, the executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said in an interview with Salon, calling the move part of a "coordinated strategy" that represents Republican "opposition to, basically, democracy." Dennis also warned that "whatever happens in Fulton is going to domino across the state" and that if this approach is successful for Republicans, other states with GOP-majority legislatures could soon follow.

"This would become a domino effect...

Washington Post: Trump Tower’s key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC.

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Washington Post: Trump Tower’s key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC.

“He’s running a con,” said Paul S. Ryan, a campaign-finance expert at the watchdog group Common Cause. “Talking about political expenses — but, in reality, raising money for self-enrichment.”

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