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Welcome to our 2025 Legislative Interns
Get to know our new 2025 Legislative Interns and learn more about their work over the course of the 90-day session
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2019 Legislative Review
This session Common Cause Maryland helped move significant reforms that secured and implemented previous
legislative victories, responded to 2018 election issues, and advanced technical reforms on a range of issues – teeing up more work to be done in 2020.
legislative victories, responded to 2018 election issues, and advanced technical reforms on a range of issues – teeing up more work to be done in 2020.
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Advocates Call for Vote on Special Elections Legislation
Yesterday, the Maryland House Ways & Means Committee heard HB 174, a bill that would give voters a say in legislative vacancies.
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High Scores for Maryland on Common Cause’s 2024 Democracy Scorecard
“Our 2024 Democracy Scorecard shows a surge of support in Congress for reforms that strengthen the right to vote, take back the Supreme Court, and break big money’s grip on our politics."
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Maryland Elections Board member arrested on Jan. 6 riot charges, resigns