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House State Gov. Committee Passes Amended AI Disclosure Bill
"Pennsylvanians deserve transparency around AI-generated political communications."
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Common Cause Pennsylvania Statement on Supreme Court’s Redistricting Decision
"Today’s decision from the Supreme Court of the United States is good news for Pennsylvanians."
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PA Supreme Court Rules that Act 77 will remain in effect as it considers challenge to mail voting law
Common Cause Pennsylvania welcomes the news that Act 77 remains in effect during the Supreme Court proceedings. Almost 40% of Pennsylvanians who voted in the 2020 General Election used a mail ballot to cast their vote.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Selects Congressional District Map
Today, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an order selecting the map proposed by the Carter plaintiffs as Pennsylvania’s congressional map for the next decade.
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Representatives of Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Argue for Fair Maps at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Today, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court held a hearing on Congressional Redistricting where lawyers for all the parties and amici who submitted maps for consideration in the Commonwealth Court proceeding argued about the relative merits of their maps and mapmaking processes.
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How Pennsylvanians are trying to bring racial equity to the fraught process of redistricting
Khalif Ali, the executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said the coalition of good government groups has held “several hundred conversations in which they talk to communities of interest and had them document where they saw value in their communities.”
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Pennsylvania lawmakers are abusing the constitutional amendment process
Republican state lawmakers, frustrated by the governor's power to veto laws, are now abusing Pennsylvania's constitutional amendment process to get what they want.
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Redistricting reformers see strong ties between racial and partisan gerrymandering
“Common Cause Pennsylvania is participating in this case as an amicus to ensure that voters of color that have historically been left out or worse by the redistricting process can have their voices heard,” said Khalif Ali, executive director of the chapter. “We are continuing to seek a better way of drawing maps that put people, not politicians, in the drawing seat.”
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Pennsylvania shouldn’t be legislating by constitutional amendment
Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause PA, pointed out, “The General Assembly is allowed to select the issue, select how it’s framed and then ask people to vote on that.”
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Mail-in voting lawsuit looms over Pennsylvania elections
Rather than tossing the entire bill, Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said legislators should discuss how to improve it.
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Pennsylvania Reapportionment Commission Approves House and Senate Maps
This process is far from over, but we know that our democracy works best when We the People are represented by elected officials who share their values, lived experiences and priorities. Pennsylvanians deserve nothing less.
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Commonwealth Court Ruling on Vote-By-Mail – Statement of Common Cause Pennsylvania
The constitutionality of Act 77, including the vote-by-mail provisions, was already thoroughly tested and found valid by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2020. We believe that this decision is wrong, and we hope and expect the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will take this important case up quickly.
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Pennsylvania Voters Committed to Free and Equal Elections Submit Proposed Congressional District Plan
Today, a group of Pennsylvania voters who are deeply committed to free and equal elections have weighed in on congressional redistricting for the Commonwealth.