조나단 메타 스타인은 선의의 정부 그룹인 캘리포니아 커먼 코즈의 프로젝트인 캘리포니아 이니셔티브 포 테크놀로지 앤 뎀오크러시의 공동 창립자로, 입법자들에게 신기술이 민주주의에 미치는 위협에 대해 조언해 왔습니다. 그는 전 세계적으로 선거에서 AI 사용이 증가하고 있는 것을 AI가 더 이상 이론적인 것이 아니라 적극적인 관행이라는 증거로 지적합니다. 2024년 1월, 방글라데시와 슬로바키아 선거에서 잘못된 정보를 유포하는 딥페이크가 상당한 선거 혼란을 초래했습니다. 미국에서...

“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.

2023년은 뉴욕 선거의 도전적인 시험이었습니다. 유권자들은 재구획과 전국적인 주목을 받은 의회 선거 스캔들에 대한 끊임없는 법적 싸움을 견뎌냈습니다. 정부에 대한 신뢰가 전국적으로 계속 감소하는 것은 놀라운 일이 아닙니다. 의회 경계가 바뀌고 논란의 여지가 있는 선거 시즌이 다가오면서 유권자들은 더욱 바쁜 한 해를 맞이하게 되었습니다.

그렇기 때문에 입법자들은 우리 법률의 기존 빈틈을 메우고 유권자들을 위협으로부터 보호하는 보호 장치를 신속하게 마련해야 합니다.

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...

매사추세츠 주 커먼코즈의 대표이사인 제프 포스터는 헌법에 대회를 운영하는 방법에 대한 규칙이 없으며, 수정헌법 제1조조차도 안전할 것이라는 보장이 없다고 말했습니다.

포스터는 "만약 우리가 이 판도라의 상자를 연다면 우리 헌법에 이미 규정된 모든 것에 큰 위험과 큰 잠재적 피해가 초래될 것"이라고 경고했다.

포스터는 대회를 통해 선출되지 않은 대의원과 특수이익집단이 자신들의 의제를 창립 문서에 포함시킬 가능성이 있다고 지적했습니다.

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."