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Common Cause Pennsylvania: Election Night is Not Results Night
As voters head to the polls, Common Cause Pennsylvania is reminding voters that it may take days for election officials to finalize results.
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Katie Scally
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Pa. Election Day 2022: Why independents can’t vote for candidates this May, and the push to change that
That’s one of the reasons why Ballot PA — a coalition of civic and community organizations including Common Cause PA, the League of Women Voters, and the Committee of Seventy — has launched a campaign to open Pennsylvania’s closed primary system.
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Pa. Senate approves legislation prohibiting third parties from funding elections
Common Cause, a good government advocacy group, opposed the bill, with Executive Director Khalif Ali saying the bill “does not guarantee that the Legislature will provide required election funding.”
“It only limits where counties can look for help when they need it,” Ali said ahead of Wednesday’s vote.
“It only limits where counties can look for help when they need it,” Ali said ahead of Wednesday’s vote.
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Senate to Vote today on Bill to Prohibit Private Grants to Elections Offices
“There’s a clear solution: the Legislature can fully fund our elections system, if it doesn’t want counties to resort to private grant funding.”
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Senate Intergovernmental Operations Considers Ballot Dropboxes
It’s unfortunate that our Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee is spending time and resources on this, today. There are so many other things that Pennsylvania voters are concerned about – continuing access to telehealth services, help with housing needs, the economy and better jobs.
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Pa. Supreme Court upholds new maps for General Assembly
Added Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania: “The Supreme Court’s decision today marks the end of the 2020 redistricting process in Pennsylvania. But our work is far from over – now we must work to educate every voter about their new districts, advocate for increased access to the ballot box, and ensure that every eligible Pennsylvanian can cast their ballot in a safe, secure and accessible election.”
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Legislative Reapportionment Commission Maps
Today the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order upholding the maps drawn by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission over a number of objections.
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In ‘Momentous’ Ruling, Supreme Court Rejects GOP Voting Maps
“The Supreme Court upheld the rule of law, including decades of settled precedent and practice governing the role of state supreme courts in the redistricting and elections processes. We will continue to monitor this litigation because all Pennsylvanians deserve voting maps where their voices can be heard.”
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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.”