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Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, illegally solicited a campaign contribution – in the form of opposition research - from a Russian national, Common Cause alleges in complaints filed today with the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission.

As welcome news about the appointment of a special counsel arrived on Wednesday night, Americans got another reminder of the how much work is still needed before we can be confident that the truth ultimately will emerge.

Recap of voter registration drive at Brooklyn Flea.

"Gusto naming magtiwala ang mga botante sa gobyerno at iyon ay nakasalalay sa isang botante sa anumang komunidad na nauunawaan kung ano ang nangyayari sa kanilang sariling komunidad," sabi ni Pedro Hernandez, isang direktor ng patakaran sa California Common Cause, na nag-cosponsor sa panukalang batas.

"Upang magkaroon ang California ng tiwala, ito ay dapat na isang multiracial at multilinguwal na demokrasya, na nangangahulugan ng pagbibigay-priyoridad at pagsentro sa access sa wika," sabi ni Hernandez sa Common Cause.

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Common Cause Hawaii’s program manager, Camron Hurt, emphasized the need for more comprehensive changes to make Hawaii’s elections free from outside influence, more competitive and more popular.

“I think those (other reforms) are all tools to fix the same wheel. Right. So I think we fixed parts of the wheel, but the wheel still isn’t moving as efficiently as it can,” Hunt said.

"Ito ay isang perpektong halimbawa ng isang bagay na nasa interes ng publiko," sinabi ni John Marion Jr., executive director ng Common Cause Rhode Island, noong Huwebes tungkol sa mga email sa Washington Bridge.

While the Voters Choice Act was never intended to be a panacea for all voting challenges facing California, one thing is very clear: The law is a reform worth revisiting and reinvesting in, and still holds promise for expanding electoral participation across the state and across many voting groups.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, said it was too soon to know if Adams had acted improperly. But she said the indictment was evidence that the city’s public financing system was working as intended.

“The campaign finance system we have in New York City deliberately makes it harder for people who want to buy influence,” Lerner said. “The lesson here is do not try to game the system because you will be caught.”

State courts have become the battleground for partisan gerrymandering after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2019 ruling in the case known as Rucho v. Common Cause.

"For several decades, people in the states had held out hope that the Supreme Court would lay down a standard for finding that partisan gerrymandering had happened and potentially overruling maps where that kind of vote rigging had happened," says Kathay Feng, vice president of programs at Common Cause, the advocacy group that has also helped lead the ongoing case...