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Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Common Cause NC urges legislature to work in bipartisan partnership to prepare state for upcoming elections
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Common Cause NC urges legislature to take action to protect our state’s elections amid COVID-19 crisis
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These Young Voting Activists Are The New Black Suffragettes
Vashti Hinton is the college outreach coordinator at the nonprofit government watchdog and advocacy organization Common Cause NC, where she works with historically Black colleges and universities (known as HBCUs) to promote political education in communities of color.
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Common Cause files complaints against Burr and others for alleged insider trading
Following allegations that U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and other senators sold large amounts of stock after confidential briefings on COVID-19, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, has filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee.
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NC Central students excited to participate in early voting
It was a full-on celebration at the North Carolina Central University student center as they prepared to exercise their rights.
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Plaintiffs ask NC Supreme Court to review lawsuit over 2016 surprise special session
“There was no justifiable reason for the 2016 special legislative session that was hatched in secrecy,” said Bob Phillips of Common Cause North Carolina. “It was a deliberate effort by Republican legislative leaders to keep citizens in the dark about their plans to engage in a nakedly partisan power grab. It was wrong, and it must not happen again.”
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Plaintiffs file appeal to NC Supreme Court in case of Common Cause v. Forest
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2020 Vision: A Look at Voting Rights in North Carolina
Over 200 lawyers and law students attended a symposium at Campbell Law School on Friday, February 7 entitled, “2020 Vision: A Look At Voting Rights in North Carolina.” The keynote speakers were Michael Spencer and Vashti Hinton-Smith of Common Cause of NC who spoke about voting rights for American Americans in North Carolina.
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NC advocates call for ‘common sense’ democracy reform
“If this year comes and goes and nothing is done, the people will notice,” Bob Phillips said. “Until we get [redistricting reform], we’re going to have a lot of problems with our democracy.”
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At UNC, the students are leading us. Thank the Lord.
As some politicians have used every lever of power and deception to crush our democratic institutions, Common Cause and its inspiring kin have manned the barricades.
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Chubby Checker coming to Wilmington for Common Cause
The legendary pop singer Chubby Checker is best-known for his 1959 smash “The Twist,” which helped popularize the dance of the same name. So it feels somehow appropriate that when Checker plays the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach on Jan. 31, it will be to benefit a group fighting gerrymandering, the practice of “twisting” voting districts into extreme shapes in order to benefit the party in power.
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NC lawmakers ordered to pay $100,000 after gerrymandering court loss
The state of North Carolina must pay over $102,000 to the winning side in a recent legislative redistricting case and the outside expert who helped analyze redrawn district lines, state judges have ruled.