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Boston Globe: Carlson’s early exit renews calls for limiting early voting or using ranked-choice voting

But John M. Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, called the GOP statement “a knee-jerk reaction to what is a fairly common occurrence in elections all across the country.”

“This is not the first time a candidate has withdrawn from a race but remained on the ballot, and it won’t be the last time,” he said. “Restricting a popular and secure way for voters to vote is not the right reaction.”

In offering 20 days of early voting, Rhode Island is matching the national average in the 47...

Public News Service: Feds Consider Whether to Allow Betting on Election Outcomes

Stephen Spaulding, vice president of policy for the nonprofit Common Cause, said gambling on elections is bad for democracy.

"You can imagine wealthy gamblers could make significant money by exploiting disinformation to influence an electoral outcome that would protect the bettors' bottom line," Spaulding pointed out. "This again opens up a significant risk to the perception that the winners and losers of an election are not determined by voters, but by those who stand to gain financially."

Spaulding noted the...

KCRA-TV: لجنة رئيسية تستعد للتصويت على دعوة الحاكم نيوسوم لعقد مؤتمر دستوري

ويشير المنتقدون إلى عدم وجود ضمانات بأن يقتصر المؤتمر على ضبط الأسلحة إذا تم تفعيله. وفي وقت سابق من هذا الأسبوع، انتقدت منظمة الدفاع عن الديمقراطية غير الحزبية Common Cause هذا التحرك، مشيرة إلى أن المؤتمر يفتقر إلى الحواجز القانونية والمعايير التاريخية.

وقالت المجموعة في بيان صحفي: "من خلال الدعوة إلى عقد مؤتمر دستوري، فإن الحاكم نيوسوم يدعو المصالح الخاصة الغنية إلى فتح غطاء دستور الولايات المتحدة والتلاعب بحقوقنا وحرياتنا - دون قاعدة واحدة". "هناك مخاطر قليلة على الحريات ...

The Center Square: Gavin Newsom’s national Constitutional amendment to limit gun access put on hold

“Doing a convention puts every civil right we have in this country at risk,” said Viki Harrison, Director of Constitutional Conventions and Protecting Dissent Programs for left-of-center watchdog group Common Cause in an interview with The Center Square. “The entire Constitution could be rewritten.”

“The amendment process is a lot more in the open,” Harrison said. “You're going through the state legislatures where people can testify. You are going through Congress where people can interact with their legislators...

Palm Beach Daily News/USA Today Network: DeSantis-led redistricting under legal fire after boosting GOP, erasing Black district

“We’re very hopeful that what came out in Alabama will bode well for Florida,” said Kathay Feng, vice president of programs for Common Cause, one of the plaintiffs in the federal court challenge set for next month in Tallahassee.

Feng said justices signaled that the “Voting Rights Act is not dead.”

Raleigh News & Observer: Town hall by town hall, some stirrings of democracy in North Carolina

Tuesday’s meeting was the sixth in a series of 19 statewide town halls sponsored by the good-government advocacy group Common Cause North Carolina.

Several years ago in Raleigh, Moral Mondays protesters descended on the Legislative Building to protest the legislature’s actions. That movement faded during the COVID pandemic. Now Common Cause is seeking to rally people where they live.

Gino Nuzzolillo, a 25-year-old staffer at Common Cause, conceived the town hall series and led the one at Gibsonville. “We...

U.S. News & World Report: QUOTES: Reaction to the Indictment of Donald Trump

مارلين كاربينتيرو، الرئيسة المشاركة المؤقتة لمنظمة "القضية المشتركة"

"No American is above the law – not even former presidents. The charges that a federal grand jury leveled today against former President Donald Trump are profoundly serious and must go to trial. The charges themselves are unprecedented, but so are the events that led to them.”

Newsday: Watchdogs to NY elections board: Reject touch-screen voting machine

"Paper ballots marked by the voter — which New York currently uses — is the election security gold ... standard," said Sarah Goff, deputy director of Common Cause New York, on Tuesday. Adding a new machine, she said, comes off as "solving a problem we don't have in New York."

Raleigh News & Observer: Idea exchange or corporate lobbying front? A look into ALEC’s influence in NC

"What I worry about in the general sense is you want to think that proposals and legislation comes from the people who are electing the folks representing them in the legislature and that there is some kind of local initiative for that," said Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause NC. "But when you have a bill mill that really is serving the interests of special interests in corporate America and right-of-center agendas, that's alarming."

خدمة الأخبار العامة: مجموعة مؤيدة للديمقراطية: على الجهات التنظيمية أن تقول "لا للمراهنات الانتخابية"

ومع ذلك، قال ستيفن سبولدينج، نائب رئيس السياسات في مجموعة "القضية المشتركة"، إن هذا من شأنه أن يضع المزيد من الضغوط على صحة الديمقراطية في البيئة السياسية الحالية.

وأضاف أن "هذا يفتح الباب أمام خطر كبير يتمثل في الاعتقاد بأن الفائزين والخاسرين في الانتخابات لا يتحددون من خلال الناخبين، بل من خلال أولئك الذين قد يستفيدون ماليا".

أرسلت منظمة "القضية المشتركة" طلبًا إلى اللجنة، تطلب فيه رفض المقترح. وأصدرت قيادة فريق عمل مجلس النواب المعني بتعزيز الديمقراطية...

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