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CNN (VIDEO): How vote-by-mail could change the 2020 election
Concerned about the impact of the novel coronavirus on the 2020 election, states are scrambling to dramatically increase mail-in voting. CNN's Marshall Cohen speaks with Common Cause's Sylvia Albert and others who explain what that means for you.
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Washington Post: With 100k votes already mailed in, in-person voters cast ballots to fill Cummings’s seat
Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause Maryland, said voting advocates aimed to avoid that very situation, but are hopeful there will be fewer problems with voters receiving their ballots in June. The special election on Tuesday was arranged too quickly for the state to launch a widespread voter education campaign, she told reporters on a conference call Tuesday afternoon. She urged Hogan to ensure adequate funding for extensive communications ahead of the primary. “I’m sure we would have seen more voters participating in the 7th District special election if more of an effort was made to reach them,” Antoine said.
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The Atlantic: America’s Elections Won’t Be the Same After 2020
“In the same way that 2000 led to no more hanging chads,” says Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections at Common Cause, a nonpartisan good-government organization, “I would hope that this election leads to proper investment and modernization in our election system.”
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Washington Post: New York state cancels its primary, angering Sanders camp
Not so, an elections expert said. “This is a totally separate matter,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at Common Cause, a nonprofit group that advocates for eased ballot access. “You’re comparing apples to oranges.” Albert noted that Congress determines the timing of federal elections and that the president does not have the power to change that.
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Impact of COVID-19 on: 2020 Census Data & Redistricting
The Census Bureau has announced significant operational changes in the wake of COVID-19. Here are the implications of these potential changes on census, apportionment, redistricting and elections.
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Washington Post: Maryland prepares for unprecedented test of mail-in voting amid pandemic
The Maryland chapter of the watchdog group Common Cause will send scouts to the voting centers to make sure voters are following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and Hogan’s orders to wear masks and remain at least six feet apart. Activists are allowed, as usual, to campaign as long as they remain at least 100 feet from the polling center. Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause in Maryland, said she worries people who didn’t receive ballots will crowd voting centers, defeating their purpose. “The concern is whether we will see people going to these in-person voting centers, which is what the board [of elections] was trying to avoid in the first place,” she said.
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Reuters: Coronavirus-spurred changes to Ohio's primary raise concerns about November
“We are extremely fortunate that this is the primary election,” said Catherine Turcer, executive director of the Ohio branch of Common Cause, a nonpartisan watchdog group. “If this were happening in November—and you can imagine the tsunami coming at boards of elections in November—they just couldn’t manage.”
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ABC News: ‘More time would have been helpful’: Ohio election officials face ballot issues due to postal service delays
Catherine Turcer, the executive director of Common Cause Ohio, said that for vote-by-mail to be successful in Ohio, should that be the default in November, the process needs to be streamlined. That means eliminating the additional back-and-forth of submitting an absentee ballot application.
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Politico: How a tea party-linked group plans to turbocharge lockdown protests
Though their regularly stated goal is to relentlessly petition their state legislatures to call for an Article V convention, the coronavirus crisis presents a unique opportunity for their movement, said Jay Riestenberg of Common Cause, who has monitored the group and its involvement with other right-wing groups focused on state legislatures. “The Convention of States is interested in showing any type of image or anything that shows that people don’t like their government. I mean, that is their end goal, to overthrow the federal government and rewrite the Constitution,” Riestenberg said. “So this is a perfect opportunity for them to show that.”
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Pensacola New Journal: Common Cause files complaint against Matt Gaetz, Collier Merrill about full disclosure
The Common Cause complaint notes that the criminal code “prohibits anyone in any matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the federal government from knowingly and willfully: “Falsifying, concealing, or covering up a material fact; making any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation or making or using any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.” Violations of the criminal code specifically include “the procurement of property or services … or a document required by law, rule, or regulation to be submitted to the Congress or any office or officer within the legislative branch,” the complaint said.