Voting & Elections

There are encouraging signs that congressional leaders finally are getting serious about protecting the special counsel and his work.

CBS report highlights gaps in U.S. election security

This New York Times video featuring J. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan, explains how easy it is for hackers to make their way into electronic voting systems.

Millions of dollars from secret donors financed the "social welfare" groups that obtained personal information about millions of Americans from Facebook and used it to help Donald Trump win the presidency

Today, Common Cause and the Voting Rights Institute filed an amici brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Abbott v. Perez, in support of a challenge to Texas legislative districts twice found by lower courts to be discriminatory racial gerrymanders perpetrated by the state Legislature. The maps drawn after the 2010 Census, were initially found to violate the Voting Rights Act by a U.S. District Court in 2011 but were reinstituted by the Legislature in 2013 without change.