Jonathan Mehta Stein es cofundador de The California Initiative for Technology and Democracy, un proyecto del grupo de buen gobierno California Common Cause, que ha estado asesorando a los legisladores sobre las amenazas que las tecnologías emergentes plantean a la democracia. Señala el creciente uso de la IA en las elecciones de todo el mundo como prueba de que ya no es una práctica teórica, sino activa. En el primer mes de 2024, las falsificaciones profundas que difundían información errónea en las elecciones de Bangladesh y Eslovaquia resultaron ser importantes perturbaciones electorales. Aquí en Estados Unidos...

“It’s that baseline of service that really affects how people think about their government,” said Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York, a government reform group. “It’s not about speeches and the big issues; it’s about whether you’ve made a noise complaint and nobody gets back to you for a week.”

For Lerner, head of Common Cause, the city’s recent budget cuts — coupled with a struggle to fill vacant positions and a hiring freeze — could hurt the Adams administration’s ability to maintain the nuts and...

"It targets specific instances when the government has used APRA to stonewall specific requests, like RIDOT's decision to withhold accident data it collects from all of Rhode Island's municipalities," says John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island.

"With respect to the Washington Bridge emails," he said of emails for which different media outlets were charged anything from zero to $450 for the same 236 pages, "the bill would lower the costs by doubling the amount of free search time given for each...

“At the end of the day, this corrupt legislation means that we don’t have money we could be spending on other things,” Executive Director of Common Cause Ohio Catherine Turcer said.

HB6, in part, gave two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) coal plants a consistent stream of revenue, from Ohioans.

“To the tune of $153,000 per day,” Turcer said.

El año 2023 fue una dura prueba para las elecciones de Nueva York. Los votantes soportaron persistentes luchas legales sobre la redistribución de distritos y un escándalo en las elecciones al Congreso que capturó la atención nacional. No sorprende que la confianza en el gobierno siga disminuyendo en todo el país. Con el cambio de los límites del Congreso y una temporada electoral polémica que se avecina, los votantes se enfrentan a un año aún más ajetreado.

Es por eso que los legisladores deben trabajar rápidamente para instituir medidas de protección que aborden las lagunas existentes en nuestras leyes y protejan a los votantes de la amenaza de...

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, said while no one was hurt, the attempt to poison or kill an election worker is despicable.

"It's to destabilize our elections and to scare the public servants who run them," Mehta Stein pointed out. "And to make all of us more fearful of participating in our democracy."

Mehta Stein blamed the rise in threats to election workers on the litany of false conspiracy theories claiming the 2020 election was rigged.

"We have to find a way...

Geoff Foster, director ejecutivo de Common Cause Massachusetts, dijo que no hay reglas en la Constitución sobre cómo gobernar una convención y que ninguna garantía, ni siquiera la Primera Enmienda, sería segura.

"Existe un gran riesgo y un gran daño potencial a todo lo que ya está consagrado en nuestra Constitución si abrimos esta caja de Pandora", advirtió Foster.

Foster señaló que una convención podría potencialmente permitir que delegados no electos y grupos de intereses especiales consagren su agenda en un documento fundador.

While the Voters Choice Act was never intended to be a panacea for all voting challenges facing California, one thing is very clear: The law is a reform worth revisiting and reinvesting in, and still holds promise for expanding electoral participation across the state and across many voting groups.

Colorado Common Cause, which supported the plaintiffs’ case with an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief before the Colorado Supreme Court, on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court “to set a critical legal precedent to safeguard the future of American democracy.”

“The Supreme Court must embrace its role as an active defender of our Constitution, or else it may crumble under the immense pressure it will surely face in the years to come,” Aly Belknap, the group’s executive director, said in a statement.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of the voting rights group Common Cause New York, said that only U.S. citizens can vote in New York state.

"Permanent residents and people authorized to work here are documented and approved by the federal government," Lerner said. "They pay state and federal taxes, and pay into Social Security as well. In many cases, they’ve lived in the United States for decades. There is nothing ‘illegal’ about them."