839 Search Results Containing "voting"
‘Majority Rule Intact’ — Ohio Voting Rights Advocates Celebrate Defeat of Issue 1
COLUMBUS, OH — Tonight, Common Cause Ohio celebrates the defeat of Issue 1, an outrageous attack on our democracy and citizens’ rights from the state legislature.
Found in: Common Cause Ohio
Defending Student Voting Rights
The amicus brief supports the rights of students to cast their votes from their campus addresses in La Crosse County
Found in: Common Cause in Wisconsin
Voting rights activists mark 58 years since passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
“Here in North Carolina, in particular, we see threats, even right now as we are speaking at the legislature to our right to vote,” Phillips said. “Certainly, that’s a concern for us.”
Found in: Common Cause North Carolina
Newsday: Watchdogs to NY elections board: Reject touch-screen voting machine
"Paper ballots marked by the voter — which New York currently uses — is the election security gold ... standard," said Sarah Goff, deputy director of Common Cause New York, on Tuesday. Adding a new machine, she said, comes off as "solving a problem we don't have in New York."
Found in: Common Cause
Attempts to Corporatize Voting in Delaware Reveal New Threat to American Democracy
Rev. Al Sharpton writes about the corporatization of democracy in Delaware.
Found in: Common Cause Delaware
Let NY Vote, Electeds, Nat'l Voting Rights Groups, Demand NYSBOE Stop Certification of Flawed Voting Machines
"The New York State Board of Elections must reject the certification of the insecure voting machine, ExpressVote XL. Paper ballots marked by the voter -- which New York currently uses -- is the election security gold standard. We should not be spending taxpayer dollars on anything else. Next, lawmakers must pass legislation that bans hybrid machines like the ExpressVote XL for good."
Found in: Common Cause New York
Voting Rights Groups Say No to the ExpressVote XL
Let NY Vote and Common Cause New York, longtime voting rights champions, are demanding the New York State Board of Elections halt certification of the ExpressVote XL.
Found in: Common Cause New York
USA Today/Center for Public Integrity: 'Lose the courts, lose the war’: The battle over voting in North Carolina
Common Cause North Carolina’s Bob Phillips called the ruling “the worst decision, perhaps, the state Supreme Court has ever made.” In her dissent, Justice Anita Earls wrote that “today’s result was preordained on 8 November 2022, when two new members of this Court were elected to establish this Court’s conservative majority.”
Found in: Common Cause
Keep Florida Voting
All previous mail ballot requests expired after the November 2022 election. Registered Florida voters who want to continue voting by mail must submit a new vote-by-mail ballot request.
Found in: Common Cause Florida
Cape Gazette: Seaford voting bill, bond bill pass house after some maneuvering
Common Cause of Delaware along with the American Civil Liberties Union both oppose the legislation that they say will dilute votes of minority residents. “We’re horrified and disappointed that this bill passed. Corporations have no place in our elections – full stop,” said Claire Snyder-Hall, executive director of Common Cause Delaware. “In a state with more registered businesses than residents, this bill gives wealthy outsiders the power to override the actual people of Seaford. Hopefully, it will not make it through the Senate.”