{"id":194,"date":"2022-09-13T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/indiana\/press-releases\/new-results-common-cause-releases-our-democracy-2022-candidate-surveys-for-first-election-since-january-6th\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:00:15","slug":"new-results-common-cause-releases-our-democracy-2022-candidate-surveys-for-first-election-since-january-6th","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/indiana\/press\/new-results-common-cause-releases-our-democracy-2022-candidate-surveys-for-first-election-since-january-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"New Results: Common Cause Releases \u201cOur Democracy 2022\u201d Candidate Surveys for First Election Since January 6th"},"template":"","class_list":["post-194","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause today released\u00a0initial results of its Our Democracy 2022\u00a0candidate questionnaire in the leadup to the first election since January 6th. With two months to go before Election Day, more than 100 candidates for Congress, including in certain swing House and Senate races, responded on how they promise to defend and strengthen our democracy.","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7904}"],"related_issues":[105,397],"related_work":false,"location":17},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Common Cause today released\u00a0initial results of its Our Democracy 2022<\/a>\u00a0candidate questionnaire in the leadup to the first election since January 6th. With two months to go before Election Day, more than 100 candidates for Congress, including in certain swing House and Senate races, responded on how they promise to defend and strengthen our democracy.\r\n\r\nRespondents answered \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d to 20 questions on topics from amplifying small donors, to ending gerrymandering and allowing same-day voter registration. Whether candidates would support the Freedom to Vote Act, repair and strengthen the Voting Rights Act, and modify the filibuster were among the included questions.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt is vitally important that every American knows where their candidates stand on protecting democracy in the wake of January 6th<\/sup>\u00a0and its lingering threat,\u201d said Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn. \u201cThis survey asks for candidate commitments to take concrete steps to protect and strengthen our democracy. We the people deserve answers \u2013 especially at a time when our democracy remains under attack.\u201d\r\n\r\nMany of the reforms included in the questionnaire have passed with strong bipartisan support at the state and local level.\r\n\r\nThe initial release of Our Democracy 2022 comes after Common Cause published its\u00a0Democracy Scorecard<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month, which provides data on every current member of Congress based on their votes for, or cosponsorship of, key democracy reform bills.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf candidates haven\u2019t answered the survey, we give voters the tools to get every candidate for Congress on the record about their willingness and commitment to defend our democracy,\u201d said Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs. \u00a0\u201cAnd after the election we will work to help voters hold officials accountable to the promises they make in the Our Democracy 2022 survey.\r\n\r\nSome Common Cause state chapters also posed survey questions to state and local candidates.\r\n\r\nAs we enter the final stretch before Election Day, Common Cause is asking voters to get more candidates on the record. We\u2019re activating our 1.5 million members to take the following three steps:\r\n