Voting Rights

Plans to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census will skew the count in favor of Republicans and leave millions of people unrepresented in Congress,.statehouses, and city and county councils.

Texans take pride in doing things big, and apparently in the case of Attorney General Ken Paxton, doing things wrong.

In the “other” Washington, the one that brought us Starbucks and Amazon, there’s good news today for our democracy.

The 11th Circuit’s remand of Georgia’s voter roll purges is a victory for Georgia and for democracy. Common Cause Georgia is encouraged with the news of our voter roll purge case against Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Our state should not be using random criteria to remove legally registered voters from the voter rolls.

There’s some encouraging news from several states this morning about voting rights and voting security.

Common Cause Pennsylvania announced that after further analysis they have found no violations of the Voting Rights Act in the new congressional map issued by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Feb. 19.