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Common Cause Pennsylvania запускает программу защиты выборов 2024 года
«Несмотря на высокий уровень энтузиазма избирателей, мы хотим убедиться, что все избиратели знают свои права и смогут свободно проголосовать в день выборов».
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Pennsylvania redistricting: New proposed maps for state House, Senate districts released
“We are particularly concerned with ensuring that Pennsylvania communities are protected and that all Pennsylvanians, but especially Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other voters of color have an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice,” said Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania.
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Legislative Redistricting Committee Approves Preliminary State Legislative Maps
While we appreciate the thoughtful and careful approach that the LRC has taken to craft Pennsylvania’s maps, the preliminary maps approved today are only the first step in securing a fair, transparent, and participatory redistricting process.
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City Council will debate limits on outside employment in wake of Bobby Henon’s bribery conviction
Khalif Ali, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania — a nonprofit that advocates for government accountability — said at Monday’s news conference that he’s concerned about diminishing confidence in democracy.
“We cannot our legislators to forget about the verdict and what happened in Philadelphia,” he said. “We needed to enact these laws yesterday.”
“We cannot our legislators to forget about the verdict and what happened in Philadelphia,” he said. “We needed to enact these laws yesterday.”
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3 reforms to prevent another Bobby Henon-Johnny Doc debacle
In the wake of the last massive City Hall scandal in the early 2000s, a wave of reforms followed, including restrictions on pay-to-play contracting, campaign finance limits, lobbying disclosure, and ethics oversight. But as this trial made clear, glaring vulnerabilities remain. To move forward, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania should start with reforms in three key areas.
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Republican changes TV attack ad in Pa. Supreme Court race after criticism
The controversy over the ad underscores how Pennsylvania’s partisan judicial elections can be just as contentious as campaigns for any other office.
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How Allegheny County judicial campaigns raised more than $2M in 2021
Khalif Ali, the director of the good government group Common Cause Pennsylvania, said of the self-funded campaigns that “the most glaring problem is the fact that not everyone can do that.”
“The judge that can fund his or her own campaign with $100,000 or more certainly doesn’t understand or can empathize with the story of someone who has lived in poverty their entire life,” he said. “There could be a struggle to represent the interest of someone in poverty.”
“The judge that can fund his or her own campaign with $100,000 or more certainly doesn’t understand or can empathize with the story of someone who has lived in poverty their entire life,” he said. “There could be a struggle to represent the interest of someone in poverty.”
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Запрос на присоединение к избирательному иску Пенсильвании получает день в суде, законодатели Сената от Республиканской партии отвечают на вызов
Гриффин, Робинсон и Халиф Али, исполнительный директор Common Cause Pennsylvania, заявили, что если повестка будет одобрена, их группам придется перераспределить ресурсы для информирования избирателей о безопасности и о том, что делать, если их информация будет скомпрометирована.
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Избиратели заявили судье штата, что они должны иметь возможность присоединиться к иску генерального прокурора о раскрытии персональных данных сенаторам Пенсильвании
Восемь избирателей и три общественные организации сегодня обратились в суд Содружества, пытаясь присоединиться к иску, оспаривающему повестку, выданную комитетом Сената штата Государственному департаменту с требованием предоставить персональные данные приблизительно девяти миллионов зарегистрированных избирателей в Пенсильвании.
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‘I’m in the hot seat’: Perry admits while answering questions regarding scathing Senate report
“When you’re in a position of leadership, you have a responsibility, to tell the truth,” Executive Director of Common Cause Pa., Khalif Ali said. He says Perry should step down for sowing seeds of mistrust in our democracy. “You can’t just arbitrarily object and call into question the integrity of the process that was questioned in previous elections in which Republicans were successful.”
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Report by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee singled out two Pennsylvania Republicans — U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and State Sen. Doug Mastriano
It is clear from what we’ve seen in this report that these men do not respect the will of the voters. No elected official should remain in office, if they do not respect the voters who put them there.
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Защитники и избиратели просят присоединиться к иску о проверке выборов против Сената ПА, чтобы защитить права избирателей на конфиденциальность
Common Cause Pennsylvania, Лига женщин-избирательниц Пенсильвании, Make the Road Pennsylvania и избиратели заявляют, что они заинтересованы в этом деле, поскольку конституционное право избирателей на неприкосновенность частной жизни будет нарушено, если республиканцам в Сенате будет разрешено требовать от них предоставления личных данных избирателей по повестке.
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Changes to ‘Prison Gerrymandering’ decision
“We have talked to inmates who have said that, you know, in trying to contact representatives, it's been a non-responsive situation.” Says Khalif Ali, Executive Director of Common Cause Pennsylvania.
Ali says these inmates don't feel adequately represented in prisons outside of their permanent addresses and will disenfranchise 7,000 people.
Ali says these inmates don't feel adequately represented in prisons outside of their permanent addresses and will disenfranchise 7,000 people.