“Our government will be run by and for the politicians, not the people,” said Suzanne Almeida, Common Cause’s director of state operations, during a Wednesday conference call with reporters. “The danger is not just that partisan political leaders will handpick winners and losers … It’s that we the people will no longer have a fully representative government.”

Die Rechtsprofessorin Michele Goodwin teilte den 2011 erschienenen Artikel der Los Angeles Times am Montag auf Twitter und markierte dabei Common Cause, die Watchdog-Gruppe, die ursprünglich über Thomas‘ Versäumnis berichtet hatte, die Einkünfte seiner Frau aus der Heritage Foundation offenzulegen.

Common Cause retweetete Goodwin und schrieb: „Wir haben die Offenlegungsunterlagen von Richter Thomas vor Jahren überprüft und festgestellt, dass er das Einkommen seiner Frau ($686.589) aus der Heritage Foundation nicht offengelegt hat. Wir werden Ginni Thomas weiterhin zur Rede stellen, bis wir einen ethischen Obersten Gerichtshof haben.“

“The value of debating in a democracy shouldn’t be understated. It’s a proven part of the process that helps voters become informed and make decisions on who is best to represent them in government. Voters deserve to know where candidates stand on certain issues, and debates and candidate forums are one of the best tools we have.” — Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, to WGBH

"Mr. Berman should've immediately disclosed what he knew to the public, and certainly should have provided all of these details during his 2020 congressional testimony," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause/NY. "It is not acceptable for public officials to hoard valuable information — about possible illegality — in order to cash in on it, when their first obligation must be to the people they're sworn to serve."

Heather Ferguson, the state director of Common Cause in New Mexico — a progressive voting rights and elections reform organization — spoke with investigators in the Ayana complaint. Ivey-Soto once referred to Ferguson and her co-director as “hips and lips,” and has publicly admitted to doing so. Ferguson said what concerns her the most is knowing that experiences like hers are happening around the country. 

“In varying degrees, this is something that occurs in different statehouses based on the level of...

Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections at the nonpartisan government watchdog group Common Cause, said that the increased retirements and resignations mean that the country must invest in "the infrastructure to train the next generation of election workers."

"We're going to run an election and we're going to make sure people can vote -- we're just going to have to use all hands on deck," she said of the upcoming midterms. "But we should be looking towards a long-term solution of proper investment in the election...

The 2020 election and its aftermath revealed the dangers posed to our democracy by disinformation. We saw how President Trump used social media platforms to assemble and incite the mob on the Ellipse on January 6th and then turn it loose on the Capitol where Congress was at work certifying the election victory of his opponent. The results were shocking, and they were tragic, and they could easily have been far worse. We must ensure they are not repeated in 2022, or 2024, or ever again.

Before the State Board of Election’s decision Monday, the good government group Common Cause Maryland sent a letter to Hogan asking him to issue another executive order for this year’s election.

“Failure to take action will allow time and space for election deniers to propagate lies and conspiracy theories about our elections,” the letter read, referencing concerns some had before the primary that candidates whose standings in the tallies changed during the mail-in ballot counting could make claims of election fraud.

Yosef Getachew, Programmdirektor für Medien und Demokratie bei der Watchdog-Gruppe Common Cause, kritisierte diesen inhaltsneutralen Ansatz und verwies auf das Muster von Newsmax, falsche Behauptungen über Betrug bei der Wahl 2020 zu verbreiten – nicht nur von Gästen, sondern auch von Mitarbeitern. Ein Richter kam kürzlich zu dem Schluss, dass der Sender zum Zeitpunkt der Ausstrahlung wusste, dass diese „wahrscheinlich falsch“ waren.

„Newsmax hat Inhalte über die große Lüge verstärkt und ausgestrahlt, den Aufstand vom 6. Januar falsch dargestellt und schürt weiterhin Desinformation über die Wahlen, was unserer … schadet.

“One America News Network will be left without a major carrier to spread its often harmful and dangerous disinformation and baseless conspiracy theories,” said Yosef Getachew, the media and democracy program director at Common Cause, a government watchdog group that urged Verizon to drop OAN. “This is a welcome change but long overdue.

“No company should profit from spreading content that endangers our democracy.”

Common Cause and other civil rights groups have pressured carriers to drop OAN.