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VICE News: Fight for a Fairer Election by Helping Voters Fix Their Messed-Up Ballots

Now, in states where ballot rejection data is publicly available, local election offices and non-partisan voter rights groups are enlisting volunteers to help with the curing process. According to Izzy Bronstein, a grassroots organizer with watchdog organization Common Cause who helps run its Election Protection volunteer coalition, volunteers can reach out to voters to let them know that their ballot might need curing, and then walk them through that process. ...

Bronstein said volunteering for ballot cure phonebanking...

Newsweek: Mitch McConnell’s ‘Legislative Graveyard’ Helping Current Congress to Be the Least Productive in History, Report Says

"The House of Representatives passed nearly 10 democracy reform bills, often with bipartisan support, this session, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked debate and markups on all of these bills and refused to allow a vote," Common Cause's director of legislative affairs, Aaron Scherb, said.

The 2020 Democracy Scorecard, one of the group's initiatives, provides data on every current member of the House of Representatives and Senate, including their votes and co-sponsorships of democracy reform bills.

Scherb...

ABC News: ‘More time would have been helpful’: Ohio election officials face ballot issues due to postal service delays

Catherine Turcer, the executive director of Common Cause Ohio, said that for vote-by-mail to be successful in Ohio, should that be the default in November, the process needs to be streamlined. That means eliminating the additional back-and-forth of submitting an absentee ballot application.

ABC News: How Bloomberg could help Joe Biden take on Trump

“Bloomberg can keep his offices open and his staff employed--all to support Biden--with Bloomberg continuing to pay for it, but the work needs to be done independently of the Biden campaign,” Paul S. Ryan of nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause told ABC News. “In other words, Bloomberg can run a pro-Biden super PAC, using his campaign office space and campaign staff. Bloomberg's pro-Biden effort staff couldn't coordinate it's spending with the Biden campaign.”

“What Bloomberg can not do is simply merge his team and...

Sacramento Bee/Yahoo! News (Op-Ed): What has California’s Voters Choice Act helped accomplish?

While the Voters Choice Act was never intended to be a panacea for all voting challenges facing California, one thing is very clear: The law is a reform worth revisiting and reinvesting in, and still holds promise for expanding electoral participation across the state and across many voting groups.
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أخبر ترامب وبوندي: توقفوا عن الهجمات على ممداني

في ديمقراطيتنا، عليك أن تناقش خصومك السياسيين، وليس أن تسجنهم وترحلهم.

هنا مكان زهران ممداني. لقد دافع عن قضيته أمام سكان مدينة نيويورك وفاز بأصواتهم، والآن يجب احترام هذه الأصوات.

لا يُمكن إسكات الأمل بالخوف. يجب على الرئيس دونالد ترامب والمدعية العامة بام بوندي وقف هذه الهجمات المشينة ضد زهران ممداني.

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STOP Trump’s military invasions

Members of Congress must stop Trump’s authoritarian military invasions of our cities before it’s too late

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How Elon Musk’s Power Grab Hurt America.

Common Cause Wrapped 2025

The Top Common Cause Led Victories of the Year

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