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Statement by Aunna Dennis, Executive Director, Common Cause Georgia
The obstacles that Georgia’s voters have faced in this election are simply unacceptable.
It’s also unacceptable that the officials entrusted with administering the elections have spent the day dodging blame, rather than accepting responsibility.
Georgia’s voters deserve better.
It’s also unacceptable that the officials entrusted with administering the elections have spent the day dodging blame, rather than accepting responsibility.
Georgia’s voters deserve better.
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Common Cause Georgia Urges Voters to Consider Absentee Voting in June Elections
Given the uncertainties surrounding the public health situation, we urge all Georgians to consider using absentee ballots to vote in the upcoming primary elections.
Absentee voting is a safe and secure way to participate in that most essential of American activities: helping to choose our government officials.
Absentee voting is a safe and secure way to participate in that most essential of American activities: helping to choose our government officials.
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Common Cause Georgia Urges Secretary Raffensperger to Disband “Absentee Ballot Task Force”
Secretary Raffensperger recently announced an “Absentee Ballot Task Force” with incredibly broad authority to investigate Georgians who choose to vote by mail. The situations that would trigger an investigation disproportionately affect voters from racial and ethnic minorities, younger voters, low-income voters and those who don’t have a traditional “residential” address.
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Statement of Cindy Battles, on behalf of Common Cause Georgia
We support Secretary of State Raffensperger’s decision to mail absentee ballot applications to all registered voters. Sending absentee ballot applications to all registered voters will make it accessible and secure for Georgians to vote by mail, if they choose to.
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DOJ, SEC and Ethics Complaints Filed Against Senator Loeffler
Today, Common Cause filed complaints calling for investigations of Sen. Kelly Loeffler. “Voters have the right to expect that our elected officials put our interests first,” said Common Cause Georgia Program Coordinator Cindy Battles. “And there shouldn’t be any question about it. Obviously, in this situation, there are questions about how Sen. Loeffler handled the information received in private briefings. There are also questions about whether she should have shared that information with her constituents, back in January when she...
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Common Cause, other organizations urge Georgia Senate to turn down call for Constitutional Convention
Common Cause Georgia, Georgia Conservation Voters, Georgia Budget & Policy Institute, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, ACLU GA, Southern Poverty Law Center, Women Watch Afrika, League of Women Voters GA, Partnership for Southern Equity, Georgia Stand Up, Black Voters Matter Fund, All Voting Is Local Georgia, GA Equality and GA AFL-CIO today urged state Senators to vote down SR 854, a resolution calling for a constitutional convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
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Common Cause Supports Redistricting Reform Bill
Sen. Elena Parent (D-Atlanta) unveiled SB 491, which provides transparency and accountability procedures for redistricting Georgia's General Assembly and congressional districts after the 2020 Census. Common Cause Georgia was one of several organizations that joined the press conference to support the measure.
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Nonpartisan Voting Rights Groups Meet with Sec. Raffensperger to Discuss Election Preparedness
Today, The Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Common Cause Georgia, Georgia NAACP, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, League of Women Voters Georgia, and ProGeorgia met with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to discuss election security, issues in counties, and other voting-related problems around the state.
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Common Cause Georgia Begins Census and Redistricting Tour
This fall, Common Cause Georgia joins its partners in the Georgia Redistricting Alliance to tour across the state educating citizens on redistricting reform, Census rollout, and our new voting systems. “We know that there are a lot of questions around these issues and we hope our town halls can help answer some of those questions.”
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Common Cause Lauds Court’s Decision in Historic Georgia Election Security Case
Today United States District Court Judge Amy Totenberg issued a preliminary injunction in Curling v. Raffensperger preventing the state of Georgia from continuing to use its insecure paperless voting machines in elections after 2019. The lawsuit challenged the state’s use of the Accuvote TS voting machine. The court found that the paperless voting systems which have been used for almost two decades in Georgia were too vulnerable to hacking and manipulation to ensure a fair election and their use should be discontinued. Additionally, the...
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Georgia’s Governor Signs New Election Security Bill in Response to Voting Rights Groups’ Lawsuit
Governor Brian Kemp today signed into law HB 392, which has a provision requiring Georgia’s secretary of state to take steps to shore up the security of the state’s voter registration database. The move comes just weeks after Gov. Kemp signed HB 316, which included new protections for Georgia voters who are required to cast provisional ballots. These bills were passed in direct response to a lawsuit brought on behalf of Common Cause Georgia by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, along with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton,...
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Common Cause Calls Out State’s Misleading Statement on Costs of Hand-Marked Paper Ballots vs Electronic Ballot Marking Devices
In a misleading statement released yesterday, Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brad Raffensperger claimed that the cost of deploying a voting system relying on hand-marked paper ballots and ballot marking devices for disability access would exceed the cost of deploying only electronic ballot marking devices for every voting station.