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“This is not the first time a candidate has withdrawn from a race but remained on the ballot, and it won’t be the last time,” he said.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...

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...

Kritiker weisen darauf hin, dass es keine Garantie dafür gebe, dass sich die Konvention im Falle einer Auslösung auf Waffenkontrolle beschränken würde. Die überparteiliche Demokratiebewegung Common Cause kritisierte Anfang der Woche den Vorstoß mit der Bemerkung, dass es einer Konvention an rechtlichen Leitplanken und historischen Normen mangele.

„Durch die Einberufung einer Verfassungsversammlung würde Gouverneur Newsom wohlhabende Sonderinteressen dazu einladen, die Haube der US-Verfassung zu öffnen und an unseren Rechten und Freiheiten herumzubasteln – ohne eine einzige Regel“, sagte die Gruppe in einer Pressemitteilung. „Es gibt kaum Risiken für die Freiheiten …“

“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...

“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.”

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...

Marilyn Carpinteyro, Common Cause interim co-president

"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.”

"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."

"Was mir im Allgemeinen Sorgen bereitet, ist, dass man glauben möchte, dass Vorschläge und Gesetze von den Menschen kommen, die ihre Vertreter im Parlament wählen, und dass es dafür eine Art lokale Initiative gibt", sagte Bob Phillips, Geschäftsführer von Common Cause NC. "Aber wenn es eine Gesetzesfabrik gibt, die in Wirklichkeit den Interessen von Sonderinteressen der amerikanischen Wirtschaft und den Agenden der rechten Mitte dient, dann ist das besorgniserregend."

However, Stephen Spaulding, vice president for policy at the group Common Cause, said this would put even more pressure on the health of democracy in current political environment.

"This 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," he said.

Common Cause has sent a filing to the commission, asking that it reject the proposal. Leadership with the House Task Force on Strengthening Democracy issued a...