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    Redistricting Community College

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    Redistricting Community College

    CHARGE designed the Redistricting Community College so your community can actively engage in the 2021/22 redistricting process – at every level of government – from school board to congressional redistricting. 

    Common Cause v. Trump (GA Election Interference DOJ Complaint)

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    Common Cause v. Trump (GA Election Interference DOJ Complaint)

    On March 10, Common Cause and Common Cause Georgia filed a complaint with the U.S. Department Justice (DOJ), urging investigation into whether then-President Donald J. Trump, Senator Lindsey Graham, Rudolph W. Giuliani and others violated multiple federal laws by attempting to overturn presidential election results in Georgia via an hour-long Jan. 2 phone call to Raffensperger and other events and communications with Georgia officials.

    Common Cause Comments in FEC Billionaire Transfer Rulemaking

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    Common Cause Comments in FEC Billionaire Transfer Rulemaking

    On August 31, 2020, Common Cause filed comments urging the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to conduct a rulemaking proceeding in order to adopt a regulation to prohibit billionaires like Michael Bloomberg from evading federal law limits on contributions to party committees by routing funds through their own campaign committees. Bloomberg’s $18 million contribution to the Democratic National Committee—and hundreds of thousands of dollars in-kind contributions to state Democratic party committees—from his self-financed presidential...

    Whitewashing Representation

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    Whitewashing Representation

    Partisan operatives are trying to change how electoral districts are drawn, in a radical effort to undermine our representative democracy.

    Zero Disenfranchisement: The Movement to Restore Voting Rights

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    Zero Disenfranchisement: The Movement to Restore Voting Rights

    Americans deserve a democracy that fosters their ability to vote and holds their elected leaders accountable, regardless of whether they have a felony The practice of disenfranchising people because of a felony conviction should no longer be practiced in the U.S.

    The Colorado Voting Experience: A Model That Encourages Full Participation

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    The Colorado Voting Experience: A Model That Encourages Full Participation

    Common Cause and the National Vote At Home Institute recommend that all states adopt reforms including same-day voter registration and early voting so that voters have sufficient and secure options to cast a ballot on or before Election Day.

    The Hofeller Files

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    The Hofeller Files

    Evidence obtained by Common Cause confirms how political operatives spent years plotting to rig our democracy with a Census citizenship question. GOP’s chief gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller laid out a plan to add the citizenship question to the Census. The purpose? Manipulating our Census and redistricting process to be, in Hofeller’s words, “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."

    Democracy On The Ballot

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    Democracy On The Ballot

    The people-led movement to strengthen our democracy continues as voters across the country vote on ballot measures dealing wwith money in politics, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics.

    Email and Internet Voting: The Overlooked Threat to Election Security

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    Email and Internet Voting: The Overlooked Threat to Election Security

    Federal government, military and private sector studies have examined the feasibility of internet-based voting and have concluded it is not secure and should not be used in U.S. government elections.

    Washington Post v. McManus

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    Washington Post v. McManus

    In August 2018, the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and other local newspapers sued the state of Maryland challenging the constitutionality of the state’s recently-enacted campaign finance disclosure law that requires certain "online platforms" to collect and make available to the public information about groups and individuals that pay to place political ads on such online platforms.

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