Position Paper
Resource Library
Get national updates
Receive breaking news, action opportunities, and democracy resources.
*By providing your phone number, you are consenting to receive mobile alerts from Common Cause at 95559. Message and data rates apply.
Legal Filing
Common Cause v. Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (Illegal Soft Money Solicitation)
On May 21, Common Cause filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) violated the ‘soft money’ ban in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by soliciting unlimited contributions for a super PAC raising money for use in the Georgia Senate runoff elections. The allegations relate to a fundraising video that Rep. Greene recorded for the Stop Socialism NOW PAC, soliciting contributions to defeat candidates Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s January Senate runoffs.
Guide
State Redistricting Timelines and Rules
Guide
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.
Guide
Step by Step Guide: How to count incarcerated people at home
An overview of the steps involved in adjusting state redistricting data to
create equitable solutions to prison gerrymandering
create equitable solutions to prison gerrymandering
Legal Filing
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.
Legal Filing
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...
Report
Whitewashing Representation
Partisan operatives are trying to change how electoral districts are drawn, in a radical effort to undermine our representative democracy.
Report
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.
Report
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.
Report
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."
Report
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.
Report
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.
