Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has opened an important door for himself and his fellow Republicans by calling on the party to end its national campaign for tougher voter identification laws, Common Cause said today

“These problems have always existed. They have just been limited to mostly low-income Black and Brown voters,” said Sylvia Albert, Director of Voting and Elections at pro-democracy organization Common Cause. “That population [of people being evicted] has ballooned in the current crisis, and what it exposes is how some parts of our system are not responsive to the needs of the voters.” ...

The additional hurdles of a pandemic and an eviction crisis haven’t discouraged people’s interest in voting, Albert said. 

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...

2020년 8월 31일, Common Cause는 연방선거위원회(FEC)에 마이클 블룸버그와 같은 억만장자가 자신의 캠페인 위원회를 통해 자금을 라우팅하여 당 위원회 기부에 대한 연방법 한도를 회피하는 것을 금지하는 규정을 채택하기 위해 규칙 제정 절차를 진행하도록 촉구하는 의견을 제출했습니다. 블룸버그가 민주당 전국위원회에 기부한 $1800만 달러와 주 민주당 위원회에 기부한 수십만 달러의 현물 기부는 그의 자체 자금으로...

3월 10일, Common Cause와 Common Cause Georgia는 미국 법무부(DOJ)에 불만을 제기하여 당시 대통령인 도널드 J. 트럼프, 상원의원 린지 그레이엄, 루돌프 W. 줄리아니 등이 1월 2일 라펜스퍼거에게 한 시간 분량의 전화 통화와 조지아 관리들과의 다른 행사 및 커뮤니케이션을 통해 조지아 대선 결과를 뒤집으려 시도함으로써 여러 연방법을 위반했는지에 대한 수사를 촉구했습니다.

It looks this morning like at least one member of President Trump’s “election integrity” commission has come to the realization that the whole thing is a sham.

The expanding web of campaign finance law violations growing out of the Trump for President campaign’s apparent solicitation of help from the Russian government has snared presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, Common Cause and two allied groups charged today.

Common Cause Pennsylvania Senior Advisor and Fair Districts PA Co-Chair Barry Kauffman urged committee members to support HB-1835, a bill that would create an independent citizen redistricting commission to draw districts using nonpartisan standards.