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Common Cause Joins Over 80 Organizations Asking eBay to Leave ALEC

Common Cause joined over 80 organizations on Tuesday in asking eBay to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.

Voting & Elections 10.2.2014

Common Cause Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

Common Cause Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

Voting & Elections 10.1.2014

Great news for Tarheel voters

A federal appeals court delivered some great news to North Carolina voters this afternoon: they’ll be able to register and vote on the same day for the mid-term election!

Voting & Elections 10.1.2014

Mail Your Ballot Back

Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia allow military and overseas voters (not domestic voters) to return voted ballots by email, facsimile and/or other Internet transmission; six allow Internet return for military members in “hostile fire” zones, and one – Alaska -- allows it for all absentee voters. But Internet voting is very insecure; ballots returned this way are at risk for manipulation, loss or deletion.

Voting & Elections 09.30.2014

Know how to vote absentee!

Amid evidence that millions of Americans failed to vote in 2012 because they could not get to the polls on Election Day, Common Cause has joined a coalition of voter advocates to launch a campaign to help overseas, military, college, and other potential absentee voters secure, fill out, and mail back their ballots for the November mid-term election.

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