In U.S. redistricting fight, citizens come armed with a new weapon: their own maps
On a recent evening, Tyler Daye, an organizer with Common Cause North Carolina, hosted an online seminar for residents of the city of Wilson on an important but arcane topic: redistricting.
NC will redistrict after census data release. Here’s why you should care.
Every state in the country can start redrawing political maps after the U.S. Census Bureau releases local population data on Thursday. But attention to the process, and any potential shenanigans, may be more intense in North Carolina than anywhere else. The redrawing process is called redistricting. But when boundaries get skewed to favor a particular political party or group, it’s gerrymandering.
NC played historic role in securing young Americans' voting rights
It was 50 years ago this month that North Carolina became the final state needed to ratify the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the national voting age to 18.
NC organization pushes for campaign financing investigation into postmaster general
“When we have rules and guardrails and bright lines, we need to know when someone is crossing that bright line and potentially breaking the law,” said Common Cause NC Executive Director Bob Phillips.
DeJoy case reveals another scandal – a shortage of NC agents
Louis DeJoy of Greensboro, a major Republican donor and now the nation’s Postmaster General, is being reviewed by the FBI for possibly using “straw donors” to circumvent individual contribution limits in federal elections. Now the advocacy group Common Cause North Carolina is pressing Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman to open a state investigation.
