Democracy Wire

Welcome to the third edition of the Gerrymander Gazette, Common Cause’s newsletter on redistricting reform efforts around the country.

Peter Flynn, 17, a senior at Middletown High School in Middletown, CT, ran into a bureaucratic buzzsaw when he went to cast his first-ever vote on Tuesday

A federal judge in North Carolina showed us Monday night why the protections of the Voting Rights Act are still very much needed.

The proposed purchase of Tribune Publishing by Gannett Co. is likely to reduce competition and diminish news coverage.

ALEC, taxpayer, corporations

In Evenwel, two plaintiffs from Texas scouted by Blum asked the Supreme Court to re-interpret fundamental principles of our democracy by drawing lines based on voters only, and making invisible millions of our family, friends, and neighbors who are not voters.