Anthony Gutierrez, Texas executive director of Common Cause, said the lawsuit shows the need for Congress to preempt such “racially and partisan gerrymandered maps” by restoring the Justice Department’s authority to put Texas under a microscope on election plans.

“While we are grateful for the involvement of the federal government, what we need to stop the five-decade cycle of having to take legal action every 10 years is for Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act,” he said.

Sylvia Albert, Common Cause Director of Voting & Elections, discusses The For the People Act on ABC News Live the day before the bill was scheduled for markup in the Senate Rules Committee.

قال ماريو جيمينيز، المدير التنفيذي لمنظمة Common Cause New Mexico: "لقد حان الوقت لسن بعض الإصلاحات التي تتسم بالحس السليم... والدخول إلى العصر الحديث. إن الجمهور يدعم هذه الإصلاحات، والإصلاحات طال انتظارها".

وأظهر استطلاع أجرته المنظمة أن 64% من المشاركين يؤيدون رواتب المشرعين، وأن 70% يؤيدون دورات أطول. وتنوع الدعم بين الخطوط الحزبية والمناطقية.

وقال فيليب هينسلي روبن، المدير التنفيذي لمنظمة Common Cause Pennsylvania، وهي إحدى الجهات المدعية في القضية، في بيان: "هذا انتصار هائل للناخبين الذين صوتوا بالبريد في ولاية بنسلفانيا. نحن مرتاحون لأن الأخطاء الكتابية البسيطة لن تمنع سكان بنسلفانيا من احتساب أصواتهم. نتطلع إلى رؤية التأثير الذي سيحدثه هذا الحكم على الانتخابات المستقبلية، وخاصة بالنسبة لمجتمعات الملونين وكبار السن في بنسلفانيا".

In the federal case, Common Cause vice president Kathay Feng said her group’s lawsuit also is supported by the Alabama decision, despite focusing on a different section of law.

“The Alabama ruling sent a very clear message that the court was going to look closely at the history of discrimination,” Feng said. “… Florida has a history of discriminating against black voters. And the impact was directly to take away the opportunity to vote from Black voters in the panhandle of Florida.”

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan, liberal-leaning political advocacy organization, told ABC News that such claims should be expected.

"There will inevitably be claims that the election is rigged because the purveyors of the 'big lie' need these local and state elections in between the major national elections to keep up their momentum; but all of their allegations in the November 2020 election fell flat," Stein said. "There's nothing new under the sun here. And we assume that...

"The charges of conspiracy to funnel foreign dollars into U.S. elections against Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman paint a troubling picture of the free flow of foreign money into our elections due to insufficient safeguards and lax enforcement," Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation for Common Cause, another watchdog group, said in a statement. "[Thursday's] indictments, though, likely represent only the tip of the iceberg in terms of foreign meddling. Both men were also heavily involved in the efforts by the...

Verizon's move means OAN "will be left without a major carrier to spread its often harmful and dangerous disinformation and baseless conspiracy theories," said Yosef Getachew, the media and democracy program director at Common Cause, a government watchdog group.

"This is a welcome change but long overdue."

Getachew added: "We hope those remaining small pay-tv providers and streaming services still carrying OAN will follow suit and deprive the outlet of any platform to spread harmful conspiracy theories that have...

Happy Thursday. How about that State of the Union address?