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Common Cause today released initial results of its Our Democracy 2022 candidate questionnaire in the leadup to the first election since January 6th. With two months to go before Election Day, more than 100 candidates for Congress, including in certain swing House and Senate races, responded on how they promise to defend and strengthen our democracy.

With The Facebook Papers adding daily to the evidence of the inability and unwillingness of social media giants to combat disinformation and other harmful content, Common Cause today released an extensive report on election disinformation, including a comprehensive set of reforms needed to curb this huge and growing problem and protect our right to vote in elections next week, next year, and beyond. Based on more than 15,000 hours monitoring social media in the 2020 election cycle, together with legal and policy expertise, “As a Matter of...

“Sean ha sido parte integral de nuestro equipo de Common Cause New York durante más de una década. Estamos encantados de que el presidente Biden lo haya nominado y esperamos su confirmación”.

Common Cause today released Democracy on the Ballot 2020. The report examines the results of 18 initiatives on the November 2020 ballot that aimed to change state laws regarding money in politics, voting rights, redistricting and direct democracy. The grassroots, citizen-led measures that protect the people’s voice in government won by a 2 to 1 margin.

Common Cause today released the results of its Our Democracy 2020 candidate surveys. More than 200 candidates for Congress, including in certain swing House and Senate races, responded on how they promise to defend and strengthen our democracy.

 Un informe publicado hoy por investigadores de la Universidad del Sur de California (USC), la Universidad de Minnesota y la Universidad de Houston hace la provocativa recomendación de que la Legislatura del Estado de California ya no debería tener el poder de eliminar a los finalistas del grupo de solicitantes para la Comisión Ciudadana de Redistribución de Distritos de California. El informe se publicó a raíz de una serie de polémicas exclusiones en la selección de la nueva lista de comisionados.

RALEIGH – El viernes, los abogados de los demandantes en el caso antimanipulación de distritos electorales de Common Cause v. Lewis presentaron un escrito en el que objetan los 19 nuevos distritos de la Cámara de Representantes de Carolina del Norte trazados por la legislatura. Los demandantes piden al tribunal que vuelva a trazar los distritos en cuestión.

Today, Common Cause released a new report on the impact of denying voting rights to people with past felony convictions and what must be done to strengthen their voting rights. “Zero Disenfranchisement: The Movement to Restore Voting Rights” documents the racist history of felony disenfranchisement laws, the new movement to repeal them, and provides several personal stories of individuals affected by these voter suppression efforts.