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Common Cause의 2024년 민주주의 점수표에서 워싱턴의 높은 점수
워싱턴 — 비당파 감시 기관인 Common Cause가 2024년 "민주주의 점수표"를 발표하여 의회의 모든 의원이 투표권, 대법원 윤리 및 기타 개혁을 지지하는 내용을 기록했습니다.
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dvance@commoncause.org
240-605-8600
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kscally@commoncause.org
202-736-5713
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아마몰레조@commoncause.org
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jgarcia@commoncause.org
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kcolston@commoncause.org
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The Guardian: Trump’s latest indictment finally holds him to account for 2020 election plot
Aunna Dennis, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause Georgia, said Trump’s expected indictment in Fulton county “validates the concerns of folks who don’t want the elections to be interfered with”.
“Even if you are in the highest seat in the country, that does not mean you can trample or mislead or manipulate the voices of voters and the voices of communities,” Dennis said. “We are not a fascist society. We are not an authoritarian society here. That’s not how our democracy works.”
“Even if you are in the highest seat in the country, that does not mean you can trample or mislead or manipulate the voices of voters and the voices of communities,” Dennis said. “We are not a fascist society. We are not an authoritarian society here. That’s not how our democracy works.”
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Indictment of Donald Trump Shows No One is Above the Law
"No American is above the law—not even former presidents. The charges that a federal grand jury leveled today against former President Donald Trump are profoundly serious and must go to trial."
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Newsday: Watchdogs to NY elections board: Reject touch-screen voting machine
"Paper ballots marked by the voter — which New York currently uses — is the election security gold ... standard," said Sarah Goff, deputy director of Common Cause New York, on Tuesday. Adding a new machine, she said, comes off as "solving a problem we don't have in New York."
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Indiana Capital Chronicle: A little-known nonprofit boosts Indiana’s economic development agency
“This is an area where a lot of money is involved. The state is offering big incentives involving our tax dollars to corporations, and Hoosiers deserve to know the backstory,” said Julia Vaughn, who leads government watchdog Common Cause Indiana. “But I think the IEDC and its foundation: their structure often stops that from happening.”
Vaughn said her organization expressed transparency-related concerns when the state swapped its commerce department for the corporation-foundation combination.
“I’m...
Vaughn said her organization expressed transparency-related concerns when the state swapped its commerce department for the corporation-foundation combination.
“I’m...
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New York Times: Inside the Party Switch That Blew Up North Carolina Politics
Linda Meigs, a political activist from Charlotte, drove to Ms. Cotham's district this month for a meeting with local lawmakers hosted by Common Cause North Carolina and other liberal advocacy groups.
Ms. Meigs said she had come prepared to confront Ms. Cotham over how she could have campaigned on ''Democratic Party values such as women's rights to reproductive freedom and L.G.B.T.Q. rights,'' only to reverse her support. Ms. Cotham was invited to speak, but didn't attend.
''When I'm talking to somebody and asking...
Ms. Meigs said she had come prepared to confront Ms. Cotham over how she could have campaigned on ''Democratic Party values such as women's rights to reproductive freedom and L.G.B.T.Q. rights,'' only to reverse her support. Ms. Cotham was invited to speak, but didn't attend.
''When I'm talking to somebody and asking...
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Honolulu Civil Beat: Editorial Board Interview: Camron Hurt Of Common Cause Hawaii
The Civil Beat Editorial Board spoke on Tuesday with the program director of Common Cause Hawaii. Camron Hurt said the organization under his leadership will focus on elections, voting access, government transparency and campaign finance reform. Hurt began by explaining what Common Cause does.
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Raleigh News & Observer: Idea exchange or corporate lobbying front? A look into ALEC’s influence in NC
"What I worry about in the general sense is you want to think that proposals and legislation comes from the people who are electing the folks representing them in the legislature and that there is some kind of local initiative for that," said Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause NC. "But when you have a bill mill that really is serving the interests of special interests in corporate America and right-of-center agendas, that's alarming."
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Public News Service: Pro-Democracy Group: Regulators Should Say “No Dice” to Election Betting
However, Stephen Spaulding, vice president for policy at the group Common Cause, said this would put even more pressure on the health of democracy in current political environment.
"This opens up a significant risk to the perception that the winners and losers of an election are not determined by voters, but by those who stand to gain financially," he said.
Common Cause has sent a filing to the commission, asking that it reject the proposal. Leadership with the House Task Force on Strengthening Democracy issued a...
"This opens up a significant risk to the perception that the winners and losers of an election are not determined by voters, but by those who stand to gain financially," he said.
Common Cause has sent a filing to the commission, asking that it reject the proposal. Leadership with the House Task Force on Strengthening Democracy issued a...
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Baltimore Sun: Who paid lobbyists a total of $48.8 million to influence Maryland lawmaking, and what did they get?
"I'm shocked every time I see how much money is being spent," said Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause Maryland. The nonprofit group does its own lobbying for "good government" bills, like those that expand ethics laws or transparency around money in politics.
Antoine said the disclosures can help the public "connect the dots"
on how both major institutions and grassroots advocates affect legislation.
"Unfortunately, this is where they have the advantage over organizations like ours,"...
Antoine said the disclosures can help the public "connect the dots"
on how both major institutions and grassroots advocates affect legislation.
"Unfortunately, this is where they have the advantage over organizations like ours,"...
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Bolts: Wisconsin’s Election Office In Limbo After GOP Tries To Force Out Its Director
“Either way, we’re screwed,” warned Jay Heck, the executive director of the good-government group Common Cause’s Wisconsin chapter.
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미국인은 법 위에 있지 않습니다. 대통령도 마찬가지입니다. 하지만 트럼프 행정부에서 우리는 기존 법률로는 대통령실의 남용을 막기에 충분하지 않다는 것을 배웠습니다. 우리에게는 법률이라는 형태의 강력한 보호 장치가 필요합니다. 대통령의 권한에 대한 더 큰 견제와 균형을 제공하는 동시에 투명성과 책임성을 위한 새로운 메커니즘을 만드는 Protecting Our Democracy Act가 필요합니다.
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USA Today/Center for Public Integrity: ‘Lose the courts, lose the war’: The battle over voting in North Carolina
Common Cause North Carolina’s Bob Phillips called the ruling “the worst decision, perhaps, the state Supreme Court has ever made.” In her dissent, Justice Anita Earls wrote that “today’s result was preordained on 8 November 2022, when two new members of this Court were elected to establish this Court’s conservative majority.”
