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宾夕法尼亚州共同事业组织启动 2024 年选举保护计划
“在选民热情高涨的同时，我们希望确保所有选民都了解自己的权利，并能在选举日自由投票。”
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宾夕法尼亚州重新划分选区：发布州众议院、参议院选区新规划图
宾夕法尼亚州共同事业组织执行董事哈利夫·阿里 (Khalif Ali) 说：“我们特别关注确保宾夕法尼亚州的社区受到保护，并确保所有宾夕法尼亚州人，特别是黑人、拉丁裔、亚裔、太平洋岛民和其他有色人种选民都有平等的机会选出自己喜欢的候选人。”
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立法重新划分选区委员会批准初步州立法地图
虽然我们赞赏 LRC 在绘制宾夕法尼亚州地图时采取的深思熟虑和谨慎的态度，但今天批准的初步地图只是确保公平、透明和参与性的重新划分选区过程的第一步。
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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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共和党人在宾夕法尼亚州最高法院竞选中因受到批评而修改电视攻击广告
这则广告引发的争议凸显了宾夕法尼亚州党派司法选举与其他任何职位的竞选一样充满争议。
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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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加入宾夕法尼亚州选举诉讼的请求在法庭上得到审理，参议院共和党议员作出回应
如果传票获得批准，格里芬、罗宾逊和宾夕法尼亚州共同事业组织执行董事哈利夫·阿里表示，他们各自的团体将不得不转移资源，对选民进行安全教育，并告诉他们如果信息被泄露该怎么办。
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选民告诉州法官，他们应该能够加入司法部长就向宾夕法尼亚州参议员披露个人数据而提起的诉讼
今天，八名选民和三个社区组织向联邦法院提起诉讼，试图加入一项诉讼，质疑州参议院委员会向国务院发出的传票，该传票要求提供宾夕法尼亚州约 900 万登记选民的个人身份信息。
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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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Advocates and Voters Ask to Join Election Review Lawsuit Against the PA Senate to Defend Voters’ Privacy Rights
Common Cause Pennsylvania, the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, Make the Road Pennsylvania, and the voters say that they have an interest in the case because voters’ constitutional right to privacy will be compromised if the Senate Republicans are allowed to enforce their subpoena for voters’ private personal data.
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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.