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Today is Texas’ General Election Certification Deadline
Common Cause Texas Offers Reflection on the General Election
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Jennifer Garcia
Media Strategist
jgarcia@commoncause.org
Anthony Gutierrez
Executive Director
agutierrez@commoncause.org
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Texas Republicans Are Making It Nearly Impossible to Safely Vote on Tuesday
“If things don’t change drastically, we’re going to have huge problems in November,” Anthony Gutierrez, the executive director of the good-government group Common Cause Texas
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Over 37,000 have voted in Travis County runoff elections, clerk says
“My takeaway from this low turnout election is that Texas is nowhere close to being ready for November when far more people will be voting,” said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the politics watchdog group Common Cause Texas. “While there were relatively fewer problems in this election compared to the meltdowns we saw in the March primaries, things did not go smoothly by any means.”
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Gov Abbott Leaves Polling Places Out of Texas Mask Mandate
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More than half of Governor Abbott’s Coronavirus Panel on Reopening Texas Are Campaign Donors
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Judge lets Texans cast absentee ballots — but AG threatens felony charges
Anthony Gutierrez, the head of the watchdog group Common Cause, added that Paxton's threat to bring charges against voting rights groups put voters at risk.
"Threatening to prosecute Texans who simply want to vote without endangering themselves, their families or their neighbors is just cruel," he told the Dallas Morning News. "Everyone who works on voting rights or elections in Texas, including the secretary of state, has said this is a piece of law that is not clear, hence the litigation, and the judge made what we believe is...
"Threatening to prosecute Texans who simply want to vote without endangering themselves, their families or their neighbors is just cruel," he told the Dallas Morning News. "Everyone who works on voting rights or elections in Texas, including the secretary of state, has said this is a piece of law that is not clear, hence the litigation, and the judge made what we believe is...
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Abbott Puts Cabal of His Billionaire Donors, Industry Lobbyists in Charge of Restarting Texas’ Economy
“Getting a bunch of smart business people together to work on this can certainly be a good thing, but it is alarming to see so many big political donors and industry lobbyists included. In a situation like this, public health absolutely must be prioritized above all else,” said Anthony Gutierrez, president of Common Cause Texas, a good-government advocacy group. “The concern in having a committee stacked with political donors and industry lobbyists is that they may allow corporate or political interests to trump what’s best for public...
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Dallas megadonor leads secret team charged with carrying out Dan Patrick’s plan to restart economy
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Texas Voters Who Fear Catching Coronavirus Can Vote by Mail, State Judge Rules
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Texas Voting Rights Advocates Request Emergency Election Measures
“It’s time for the people in power in Texas to stop worrying about political considerations and just do the right thing to make sure no Texan is forced to choose between voting and endangering their lives,” according to Common Cause Executive Director Anthony Gutierrez.
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Texas Will Get at Least $11.2 Billion in COVID-19 Stimulus Money. Here’s Where the Funds Will Go
“The way to make that happen is to use these funds to implement online voter registration, expand vote by mail, extend early voting, recruit more election workers, and ensure all poll sites meet public health safety standards,” Gutierrez told the Houston Chronicle last week.
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Federal stimulus could send $20M to Texas for elections help
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How Will Texas Conduct Elections in the Wake of the Coronavirus?
According to Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the voting watchdog group Common Cause Texas, mail-in voting is just one issue local election administrators must take into account when preparing for elections during a pandemic. Ensuring voting machines are safe to touch, that cleaning supplies won’t damage machines or ballots, finding alternatives if elderly poll workers can’t come to work—“you can’t do that overnight,” Gutierrez said. “The problem with all of these emergency election measures is that none of them are...