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A Shameful Ruling
A federal appeals court late Monday reinstituted Wisconsin’s hotly-disputed Voter ID law, reversing a district court’s order in Frank v. Walker, and complicating plans for a mid-term election that’s now less than four weeks away.
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Today in Democracy – 10/07/14
The New Yorker looks at Lessig, Washington Post tracks the confusion caused by last minute changes to election laws, anti-ALEC work gets profiled in the National Journal, and USA Today watches GOP donations rise as party eyes Senate take over after election.
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Common Cause Joins Over 80 Organizations Asking eBay to Leave ALEC
Common Cause joined over 80 organizations on Tuesday in asking eBay to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.
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Common Cause Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
Common Cause Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
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4th U.S Circuit Court Ruling News Reports from around NC.
News clips on the 4th Circuit decision
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Great news for Tarheel voters
A federal appeals court delivered some great news to North Carolina voters this afternoon: they’ll be able to register and vote on the same day for the mid-term election!
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Mail Your Ballot Back
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia allow military and overseas voters (not domestic voters) to return voted ballots by email, facsimile and/or other Internet transmission; six allow Internet return for military members in “hostile fire” zones, and one – Alaska -- allows it for all absentee voters. But Internet voting is very insecure; ballots returned this way are at risk for manipulation, loss or deletion.
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Know how to vote absentee!
Amid evidence that millions of Americans failed to vote in 2012 because they could not get to the polls on Election Day, Common Cause has joined a coalition of voter advocates to launch a campaign to help overseas, military, college, and other potential absentee voters secure, fill out, and mail back their ballots for the November mid-term election.
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60 Wisconsin State Legislative and Statewide Candidates Pledge Support for Non-Partisan Redistricting Reform
Sixty Wisconsin candidates pledge support for redistricting reform.
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Great weekend for California voters
California Common Cause scored three major victories this weekend, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills to make ballot initiatives more open and transparent, boost voter turnout, and ensure every vote is counted.
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Gouverneur von Virginia ruft Kommission zur Prüfung der Neugliederungsreform in Wahlbezirke aus
Eine von Gouverneur McAuliffe eingesetzte Kommission im US-Bundesstaat Virginia wird die Reform der Neugliederung der Wahlbezirke prüfen.
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International Paper Leaves ALEC
As Google, Facebook, and Yahoo have all announced that they are cutting ties with ALEC this week, numerous other corporations have confirmed to Common Cause they either have left the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are reevaluating their membership, or have never been members. Here are the statements we have received:
