“We’ve seen…candidates really pushing the envelope here, and there has been a rise in single-candidate super PACs,” said Stephen Spaulding, Vice President of Common Cause, a group dedicated to lessening the impact of special interests in government and politics.

“You have super PACs essentially operating as arms of campaigns — only they can take unlimited amounts of money from nearly any source,” Spaulding said.

“It’s time for Congress to step in and pass legislation to make clear that...

“Greg Abbott either didn’t read this bill closely enough to understand what it really does or is deliberately working to make it harder for Texans with disabilities to vote,” Katya Ehresman, the voting rights manager for Common Cause Texas, said in a statement.

Các nhóm bảo vệ quyền bỏ phiếu cho biết điều đó không có nghĩa là việc bỏ phiếu dễ dàng và họ đã phản ứng với các hạn chế bằng các chiến lược mới. Ví dụ, tại Georgia, Common Cause đã thiết lập các trạm in di động trên toàn tiểu bang để cử tri có thể tuân thủ các quy tắc đăng ký cử tri mới yêu cầu phải có chữ ký bằng mực trên mẫu đơn đã in.

“Chỉ thông qua công việc của tất cả các cộng đồng và nhóm này trên thực địa, cử tri mới có thể tiếp cận được”, Sylvia Albert, giám đốc quốc gia về bỏ phiếu và bầu cử của nhóm, cho biết. “Nhưng làm như thế này...

Flight attendants use euphemistic doublespeak because, understandably, they want to avoid terms like “hijacking” and "September 11th.” For similar reasons, Jones spoke in broad terms, without directly invoking Trump or January 6th. (There were also other reasons for this, such as Common Cause’s nonpartisan status.) Even so, the implications were clear. At one point, an organizer sitting in the audience stood, using a cane, and gave an impromptu speech, urging listeners to imagine a Supreme Court opinion that enabled legislatures to rig...

Katya Ehresman, voting rights program director with Common Cause Texas, said voters, county officials and election administrators should have been given the opportunity to testify about legislation set to directly impact them.

Ehresman said that process was concerning and “against values of transparency and public input, which should be core parts of the legislative process.”

“These bills do have a tangible effect on voter turnout, voter apathy, and on the ability for elections administrators to do their job...

The law was backed by the good governance organization California Common Cause, which described it as “a common sense and long overdue pro-democracy reform” that already exists in other states and in certain California cities.

Striking down the law would go against the “will of the people,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause.

“This law protects Californians from the pay-to-play corruption and the appearance of corruption that plagues our cities and counties, and...

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...

“All of these changes together are forcing Harris County voters to live in a different set of circumstances than the rest of the state. This is creating a disparate scenario for those voters and barriers to well run elections,” said Katya Ehresman, voting rights program director at Common Cause Texas. “There’s a clear partisan element to that with Harris County growing in its Democratic stronghold. But there’s also definitely a disparate racial impact element to these bills continuing to pass as the county is home to the largest...

After April’s decision, Alaska became the 13th state to have its highest court interpret the state’s constitution to ban partisan gerrymandering. A further seven states have a statutory ban on partisan gerrymandering, according to Dan Vicuña, national redistricting manager at Common Cause, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that campaigns to end gerrymandering across the nation.

“Whether it happens in a red state or a blue state, a constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering is always a landmark victory for the...

Claire Snyder-Hall, giám đốc điều hành của Common Cause Delaware, một tổ chức ủng hộ chính phủ minh bạch, gọi đây là "một nỗ lực vô lý nhằm tước đoạt quyền của những chủ sở hữu bất động sản giàu có, một số người thậm chí không sống ở Delaware, trong các cuộc bầu cử thị trấn".

"Chúng ta đang chứng kiến các cuộc tấn công vào quyền tự do bỏ phiếu trên khắp cả nước, và chủ yếu là những người Cộng hòa đang cố gắng tạo ra rào cản cho việc bỏ phiếu", bà nói với Delaware Online/The News Journal. "Và đây là một cách khác để đạt được cùng một mục đích, đúng không?

"Giống như 'Ồ, chúng ta...