“I am trying to see today as an opportunity to show the cracks in the system that we can fix before November,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for voting rights group Common Cause.

Albert said there is concern that in the November election, people who request absentee ballots will not receive them, and there will be fewer polling places as counties consolidate them in response to the pandemic.

“There needs to be a rational level of consolidation that ensures that communities who...

“We know that there are going to be issues on June 2nd,” said Suzanne Almeida, interim executive director of Common Cause PA, citing instances in which county offices have sent out duplicate mail-in ballots, or even the wrong political party’s primary ballot; the massive consolidation of polling places in places like Philadelphia; and the use of new machines in many places.

“The way that we’re looking at this is really that we we will have a lot of clarity after June 2nd about what needs to be fixed for November,"...

Suzanne Almeida, the interim executive director for Common Cause Pennsylvania, a voting rights organization, told ABC that for officials in Pennsylvania, "this was never going to be an easy election."

"Pennsylvania in 2020 was always going to be crazy. It's a swing state in the presidential election year. And then on top of that, in 2019 we passed historic voting reform that gave us vote-by-mail for the first time, and changed the voter registration deadline closer to election day," Almeida said.

Однако организация Common Cause Pennsylvania утверждает, что иск — это «политическая уловка», призванная «исключить определенных избирателей из списков».

«Наша задача в организации «Общее дело» — не допустить, чтобы это переросло в кризис демократии, когда люди, имеющие право прийти и проголосовать в день выборов, будут исключены из списков», — заявила Fox News Сюзанна Алмедиа, временно исполняющая обязанности исполнительного директора организации «Общее дело Пенсильвания». «Речь идёт о процедуре, которую должен пройти избиратель, имеющий право голоса, если его ошибочно исключили из списков».

"Every vote is going to matter here, as it's excruciatingly close here, as it always is," says Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin, one of the most critical of battleground states this fall. If presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins every electoral vote Hillary Clinton did in 2016 – and picks up Pennsylvania and Michigan – he'd still lose by two electoral votes without also capturing Wisconsin.

Heck contends that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote to keep battleground Wisconsin in the...

“Threatening to prosecute Texans who simply want to vote without endangering themselves, their families or their neighbors is just cruel,” said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog group. “Everyone who works on voting rights or elections in Texas, including the secretary of state, has said this is a piece of law that is not clear, hence the litigation, and the judge made what we believe is the right call today.”

«Я думаю, что эта пандемия подтолкнёт к общенациональному диалогу о том, чтобы все имеющие право голоса избиратели могли быть услышаны», — сказал Аарон Щерб, директор по законодательным вопросам беспартийной правительственной организации Common Cause. «Надеюсь, некоторые из этих реформ будут не временными, а постоянными, которые сохранятся и после пандемии».

Some communities, such as those on Native American tribal lands, aren't as well-served by the U.S. postal system, and mail-in ballots should include pre-paid postage so citizens don't have to pay for the right to cast a ballot, says Karen Hobert-Flynn, president of Common Cause. But she's for any idea that "makes sure there's fair and safe voting for all."

"Even as we are worried about this public health threat, we need to remember that it can't distract us from the ways we can fight it," Hobert-Flynn says. "That means we have...

Правительственная группа по контролю за выборами Common Cause призвала все штаты «расширить программы голосования по почте и заочного голосования везде, где это возможно».

«Сейчас настало время для нашей страны объединиться, чтобы защитить друг друга в условиях пандемии COVID-19, и это включает в себя переосмысление того, как мы проводим выборы во многих штатах», — заявила в пресс-релизе президент некоммерческой организации Карен Хоберт Флинн.

Common Cause New York, a voting rights group, had called on Gov. Cuomo and state officials to consolidate the primary, contending that officials have made it clear that they won’t have the bandwidth to conduct an entirely absentee election by late April.

“We don't have the infrastructure in place to do it quite frankly, so that's anything from having enough paper to print all the ballots, to making sure that we have prepaid postage, to make sure folks can return their ballot. It's a lot of smaller logistical decisions and...