839 Search Results Containing "voting"
Common Cause/NY Pushes Lawmakers to Prioritize Voting Rights as Session Ends
"Lawmakers have an historic opportunity to pass legislation that will directly impact voters' lives and improve democracy ahead of 2024. From expanding absentee voting to allowing food and water on voting lines, the need is urgent: we can not rest on our laurels from years past. As we head into a Presidential election year, lawmakers must act now or New Yorkers will pay the price at the polls."
Found in: Common Cause New York
Voting rights advocates worry as GOP lawmakers consider changes to state elections laws
"We feel very strongly that nothing should be done to make voting harder," said Bob Phillips, executive director of government watchdog group Common Cause North Carolina, and a frequent presence at the state legislature.
Found in: Common Cause North Carolina
Tallahassee Democrat (Op-Ed): Florida Legislature and Gov. DeSantis are trampling on our voting rights
If we want a democracy that works for everyone, we should be making it harder for money to influence politics, and easier for eligible Floridians to exercise their freedom to vote. But that’s the opposite of what’s happening in Florida, with state lawmakers erecting a slew of unnecessary and confusing barriers for Floridians looking to participate in our democracy.
Found in: Common Cause
Civil & Voting Rights Organizations Commend Connecticut Senate for Passing Historic State Voting Rights Legislation
Connecticut advocacy organizations applaud Senate for passing Connecticut Voting Rights Act.
Found in: Common Cause in Connecticut
Indianapolis Star: Voting rights advocates worry new Indiana law will disenfranchise vulnerable voters
It's likely the law will be challenged in court. Common Cause Indiana Executive Director Julia Vaughn said "it creates serious questions about violations of the United States Constitution and the Civil Rights Act." Several organizations including Common Cause say the legislation would disproportionately affect the elderly, minorities who already facing barriers to voting and voters who use alternate voting methods like travel boards or the military post card application. Voting rights groups are especially worried those who are eligible for assisted voting, such as people who are confined or blind and vote with an in-person board, won't have the proper or valid paperwork to apply to cast their ballot. "You can't put up administrative barriers at the ballot that could potentially disenfranchise people for no good reason," she said. "We don't think there's any good reason, any compelling evidence, that there's there's any good reason to do this."
Found in: Common Cause
Committees Send Connecticut Voting Rights Act to Senate Floor
Voting rights advocates strongly support bill that will protect and empower voters
Found in: Common Cause in Connecticut
Mother Jones: Republicans Are Trying to Seize Control Over Voting In Texas’ Largest Democratic County
Harris County has become the epicenter for what Common Cause Texas calls the “Texas Edition of the Big Lie.” “It’s a really intentional form of partisan takeovers of local election offices,” says Katya Ehresman, voting rights program manager for Common Cause Texas.
Found in: Common Cause
Common Cause Delaware talks with WBOC about Seaford corporate voting bill
Claire Snyder-Hall, executive director of Common Cause Delaware, talks with WBOC a proposed amendment to the Seaford city charter that would allow corporations to vote.
Found in: Common Cause Delaware
NPR: Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states
State courts have become the battleground for partisan gerrymandering after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2019 ruling in the case known as Rucho v. Common Cause. "For several decades, people in the states had held out hope that the Supreme Court would lay down a standard for finding that partisan gerrymandering had happened and potentially overruling maps where that kind of vote rigging had happened," says Kathay Feng, vice president of programs at Common Cause, the advocacy group that has also helped lead the ongoing case against a North Carolina congressional map approved by Republican state lawmakers.
Found in: Common Cause
Delaware News Journal: Voting rights for Delaware corporations being weighed; Bill advanced to allow artificial entities say in Seaford elections
Claire Snyder-Hall, executive director of Common Cause Delaware, an organization that advocates for open government, called this an "outrageous attempt to get wealthy property owners, some of whom don't even live in Delaware, an unfair say in town elections." "We're seeing attacks on freedom to vote all over the country, and mostly Republicans trying to create barriers to voting," she told Delaware Online/The News Journal. "And this is kind of a different way of getting at the same thing, right? "It's like 'Oh, we can't restrict people, but let's empower other people to vote. Let's empower the companies to vote," she said. "And so it dilutes the votes of everyday people in a different way."