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Common Cause Georgia Begins Census and Redistricting Tour
This fall, Common Cause Georgia joins its partners in the Georgia Redistricting Alliance to tour across the state educating citizens on redistricting reform, Census rollout, and our new voting systems. “We know that there are a lot of questions around these issues and we hope our town halls can help answer some of those questions.”
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Common Cause Lauds Court’s Decision in Historic Georgia Election Security Case
Today United States District Court Judge Amy Totenberg issued a preliminary injunction in Curling v. Raffensperger preventing the state of Georgia from continuing to use its insecure paperless voting machines in elections after 2019. The lawsuit challenged the state’s use of the Accuvote TS voting machine. The court found that the paperless voting systems which have been used for almost two decades in Georgia were too vulnerable to hacking and manipulation to ensure a fair election and their use should be discontinued. Additionally, the...
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Georgia’s Governor Signs New Election Security Bill in Response to Voting Rights Groups’ Lawsuit
Governor Brian Kemp today signed into law HB 392, which has a provision requiring Georgia’s secretary of state to take steps to shore up the security of the state’s voter registration database. The move comes just weeks after Gov. Kemp signed HB 316, which included new protections for Georgia voters who are required to cast provisional ballots. These bills were passed in direct response to a lawsuit brought on behalf of Common Cause Georgia by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, along with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton,...
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Common Cause Calls Out State’s Misleading Statement on Costs of Hand-Marked Paper Ballots vs Electronic Ballot Marking Devices
In a misleading statement released yesterday, Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brad Raffensperger claimed that the cost of deploying a voting system relying on hand-marked paper ballots and ballot marking devices for disability access would exceed the cost of deploying only electronic ballot marking devices for every voting station.
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Common Cause Georgia Applauds Atlanta City Council for Introducing Ethics and Accountability Legislation
"The City of Atlanta is paving the way for other cities across Georgia to take a deeper look at ethics and accountability within local government. Georgians want city leaders to make them a priority, not moneyed interests.”
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Common Cause Georgia Urges Full Transparency in New Voting System Purchase
“The citizens of Georgia need to know that voting machine vendors have wooed local officials with expensive perks. Multimillion dollar decisions about which system to buy should be made with the interests of Georgia voters and taxpayers in mind. They should not be made based on which company spent the most lobbying state legislators and fostering close connections with decisionmakers.”
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Common Cause Georgia Files Complaint Against Georgia State Charter School Commission
Common Cause Georgia today filed a complaint with the state's Inspector General to investigate recently revealed payments and offers of payments by a state vendor to state employees, as well as the same state vendor's transparency law violations. We also urge the state employee who accepted these payments to return them immediately.
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Reaction to Georgia Secretary of State Kemp’s Resignation
Former Georgia Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp finally recognized the inherent conflict of interest of his remaining in that office while simultaneously running for governor.
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Common Cause GA Celebrates Federal Judge’s Order to Grant Emergency Relief from “Exact Match” Law
Judge Eleanor Louise Ross of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of GA today ordered that Georgia voters whose registration applications had been left pending under the state's “Exact Match” program are now allowed to exercise their right to vote in the midterm election on November 6.
The full order is accessible here: https://bit.ly/2CXY3iQ
The full order is accessible here: https://bit.ly/2CXY3iQ
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With One Week To Go Before Election Day, There’s Still Time For Kemp To Resign
Georgia Exec Director Henderson: Kemp Overseeing Own Election “Undermines Fairness and Confidence in Election Systems” and “He Should Resign Immediately”
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To Help Disenfranchised Gwinnett County Voters, Follow Best Practices on Vote-By Mail, Common Cause Tells Kemp, Local Board of Elections
Gwinnett County Rejecting Ballots from Voters of Color at Disproportionate Rate; Common Cause Sends Letter Offering Clear Process to Make Gwinnett Votes Count
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Common Cause Joins Civil Rights Groups in Suing Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp
Common Cause joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and other civil rights organizations in suing Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for the state’s discriminatory and unlawful “exact match” voter suppression scheme.
