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Associated Press: 1 city, 1 voting place: Kentucky braces for lines in primary
Richard Beliles, Common Cause Kentucky board chairman, said offering “so few polling places for the primary is irresponsible and unacceptable, and sadly it was avoidable.”
Found in: Common Cause
Voting Rights Advocates Applaud Bill Passed by Senate; Urge Swift Action
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
The Daily News: Mass. Senate set to expand on voting by mail
"With those changes, this bill will ensure that Bay Staters -- who may otherwise have been prevented from casting a ballot by the coronavirus pandemic -- can exercise their fundamental right to participate in our democracy," said Pam Wilmot, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts.
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
Masslive: Massachusetts Senate passes bill to expand voting options for 2020 elections in light of coronavirus
Prior to Tuesday’s session, Common Cause Massachusetts and more than 80 organizations, including ACLU and MassPIRG, threw their support behind three amendments filed by Sens. Jo Comerford, Adam Hinds, and Eric Lesser dealing with an online portal to request ballots, postmarking ballots to ensure they are properly counted, and extending the deadline to request mail-in or absentee ballots to the Friday before Election Day. All three were adopted during Tuesday’s session.
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea and Voting Rights Groups announce ‘Safe and Healthy Voting in 2020 Act’
Following on the June 2 presidential primary, which saw 83% of all votes cast by mail, a coalition of Rhode Island organizations today announced legislation to implement mail-based voting in the September 8 state primary and the November 3 general election.
Found in: Common Cause Rhode Island
USA Today: 'Complete catastrophe': Georgia primary voting blasted for long lines, malfunctioning equipment
“Thousands of Georgians were denied the right to vote,” said Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause of Georgia. “Our warnings were not heeded.”
Found in: Common Cause
Washington Post: Voting debacle in Georgia came after months of warnings went unaddressed
“The cause of the problems is grave mismanagement of elections here in Georgia,” said Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, a civil rights watchdog. “The state failed to heed the warnings of what could happen in this election.”
Found in: Common Cause
Voting Rights Groups File Intervenor Motion to Protect Voters during COVID-19
Nationwide, 25 percent of Americans already vote by mail. Just this year, at least 16 states have postponed elections or moved to conduct them by mail to ensure voters can cast ballots from the safety of their homes. Mail ballots have been used by both Republican and Democratic politicians alike.
Found in: California Common Cause
Washington Post: In Georgia, primary day snarled by long lines, problems with voting machines — a potential preview of November
“It’s the wild, wild West,” said Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia. “I don’t know what to call Georgia right now.”
Found in: Common Cause
U.S. News & World Report: Widespread Voting Issues Raise Alarm in Georgia Primary
And activists on the ground noted multiple issues at the state and local levels, arguing that voters were unable to find concrete information. Aunna Dennis, the executive director of Common Cause Georgia which is the state chapter of a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on voting rights, says that multiple polling locations moved within the 48 hours before the election with little warning and didn't provide proper signage to indicate the changes in locations for voters. And when machines stopped working, some locations only had 20 emergency and provisional ballots on hand. "For us, those are voter suppression tactics at work," Dennis says. "We all need to sit down to better plan, to create an emergency preparedness plan to make elections be more efficient."