Sylvia Albert, Common Cause Director of Voting & Elections, discusses The For the People Act on ABC News Live the day before the bill was scheduled for markup in the Senate Rules Committee.

„Es ist an der Zeit, einige vernünftige Reformen durchzuführen … und in die moderne Ära einzutreten“, sagte Mario Jimenez, Geschäftsführer von Common Cause New Mexico. „Die Öffentlichkeit steht dahinter und die Reformen sind längst überfällig.“

Die Umfrage der Organisation ergab, dass 641 Prozent der Befragten Gehälter für Abgeordnete befürworteten und 701 Prozent längere Sitzungszeiten. Diese Zustimmung war partei- und regionalübergreifend.

„Dies ist ein enormer Sieg für die Briefwähler in Pennsylvania“, sagte Philip Hensley-Robin, Geschäftsführer von Common Cause Pennsylvania, einem der Kläger in dem Fall, in einer Stellungnahme. „Wir sind erleichtert, dass kleinere Schreibfehler die Stimmen der Bürger von Pennsylvania nicht mehr daran hindern werden, gezählt zu werden. Wir sind gespannt, welche Auswirkungen dieses Urteil auf künftige Wahlen haben wird, insbesondere für farbige Gemeinden und ältere Bürger von Pennsylvania.“

In the federal case, Common Cause vice president Kathay Feng said her group’s lawsuit also is supported by the Alabama decision, despite focusing on a different section of law.

“The Alabama ruling sent a very clear message that the court was going to look closely at the history of discrimination,” Feng said. “… Florida has a history of discriminating against black voters. And the impact was directly to take away the opportunity to vote from Black voters in the panhandle of Florida.”

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan, liberal-leaning political advocacy organization, told ABC News that such claims should be expected.

"There will inevitably be claims that the election is rigged because the purveyors of the 'big lie' need these local and state elections in between the major national elections to keep up their momentum; but all of their allegations in the November 2020 election fell flat," Stein said. "There's nothing new under the sun here. And we assume that...

"The charges of conspiracy to funnel foreign dollars into U.S. elections against Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman paint a troubling picture of the free flow of foreign money into our elections due to insufficient safeguards and lax enforcement," Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation for Common Cause, another watchdog group, said in a statement. "[Thursday's] indictments, though, likely represent only the tip of the iceberg in terms of foreign meddling. Both men were also heavily involved in the efforts by the...

Verizon's move means OAN "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.

"This is a welcome change but long overdue."

Getachew added: "We hope those remaining small pay-tv providers and streaming services still carrying OAN will follow suit and deprive the outlet of any platform to spread harmful conspiracy theories that have...

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