837 Search Results Containing "voting"
My Backyard Local News: “Ranked Choice Voting” Massachusetts Ballot Question
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
Center for Public Integrity: In Massachusetts, Removing Barriers to Voting Boosts Turnout
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
MONEY: How to Support Voting Rights and Protect our Elections: A Guide for Where to Donate Money
Common Cause manages grassroots voter protection field programs for the Election Protection coalition mentioned above. It works with organizations in all 50 states to identify election reforms at all levels of government, including expanding vote-by-mail and ensuring safe in-person voting with strict public health and social distancing guidelines. The organization has recruited more than 35,000 volunteers during the 2020 election through its Protect the Vote program (four times more than they saw during the 2016 election), according to its national media strategist David Vance. Common Cause also has an online tool to help people quickly find their representatives, how to contact them, bills they’ve introduced, committees they’ve served on and political contributions they’ve received to ensure you have all the information needed to vote.
Found in: Common Cause
NPR (AUDIO): Voting Rights Groups Help Americans 'Cure' Rejected Ballots
PAM FESSLER, BYLINE: Dana Abelson spent hours this week calling voters in Florida whose ballots are about to be rejected. DANA ABELSON: Hi. Is Chandramani there? This is Dana. I'm a nonpartisan volunteer with Common Cause. And I was just calling because it seems like your mail-in ballot might have had a problem with the signature.
Found in: Common Cause
Associated Press: NY officials optimistic about fixes to mail-in voting system
“There are always problems with every human system, but the good news is that there’s ample time to fix them and voters have plenty of options,” Common Cause New York Executive Director Susan Lerner said. “The most important thing is to make a plan to vote now, and then have a back-up plan in case you need it.”
Found in: Common Cause
Washington Post: ‘I’ve been crying for days’: How voting became the latest of 2020’s many anxieties
“I would be very happy if it wasn’t not coming down to Pennsylvania, if we were just one of the many states one way or another,” says Suzanne Almeida, a lawyer for the state’s chapter of the watchdog group Common Cause.
Found in: Common Cause
Local Political Parties Debate Which Voting Process Best
“A national investigation of vote by mail from 2000 to 2012 found 491 cases of mail vote fraud, which might sound like a lot until you realize that over that time period billions of votes were cast by mail successfully,” said Jonathan Meta Stein with Common Cause.
Found in: California Common Cause
Court clarifies that voting must be able to continue uninterupted if voting machines fail, declines to prescribe amount required
In an amicus brief filed in the long-running Curling v. Raffensperger lawsuit, Common Cause asked United States District Judge Amy Totenberg to require paper ballots equal to 40% of registered voters at each polling site. That number was based on projections of ballot usage during peak voting times, so voters would be able to vote at their polling place even in cases of voting system failures lasting three hours. In a decision issued tonight, Judge Totenberg declined to require a specific number of paper ballots.