Si Emma Steiner, ang information accountability project manager sa Common Cause, ay nagsabi sa HuffPost na ang programa ng monetization ng Musk, kasama ng kanyang bagong sistema para sa pagtanggap ng "na-verify" na mga badge, ay naghikayat ng mapanlinlang na impormasyon.

"Ang bagong sistema ng pag-verify ay nangangahulugan na halos imposibleng makilala ang totoong balita mula sa pekeng balita sa platform ngayon, lalo na dahil ang mga tao ay partikular na nagpo-post upang makakuha ng kita para sa pakikipag-ugnayan," sabi ni Steiner. "Iyan ay lumilikha ng ilang talagang masasamang insentibo para sa mga kaganapan sa breaking news."

Ang Common Cause Florida, ang sangay ng Florida ng NAACP at Fair Districts Now ay nagdedemanda upang maalis ang mapa na nakakita sa distrito ng North Florida na hawak ni Rep. Al Lawson, isang Black congressman.

Sa unang araw ng paglilitis, inakusahan ng abogadong si Greg Baker, na kumakatawan sa nagsasakdal, si DeSantis na "itinulak at itinulak" upang i-endorso ang pinagtatalunang mapa ng kongreso na tumulong sa Florida GOP na makakuha ng apat na puwesto sa Kamara sa mga halalan sa midterms noong nakaraang taon.

"Idiniin niya ang kanyang argumento sa pamamagitan ng sound bite bullying," Baker...

Si Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director ng California Common Cause, ay nagsabi na ang panganib ng isang runaway convention ay masyadong malaki, dahil kakaunti ang mga panuntunan sa lugar.

"Wala kaming ideya kung sino ang naghahangad na maimpluwensyahan ang mga miyembro ng constitutional Convention," itinuro ni Stein. "What lobbying would be happening behind the scenes? Would there be public-records requirements? Would there be transparency requirements? Wala lang kaming ideya."

Walang mabubuhay na alternatibo sa ERIC. Sinubukan ng ibang mga estado, ngunit walang pakinabang; halimbawa, ang Interstate Crosscheck System, isang program na nagsimula sa Kansas, ay may 99% error rate. Napag-alamang inalis nito ang humigit-kumulang 200 rehistrasyon na ginamit para bumoto ng mga lehitimong boto para sa bawat duplicate na rehistrasyon ng botante. Tulad ng ipinaliwanag ng Louisiana Illuminator, "Ang pagkopya sa ginawa ng ERIC ay magiging isang pangunahing teknikal, siyentipiko, administratibo at pampulitikang hamon, kahit na para sa isang estado na nakatuon sa paggawa nito."

Sinabi ni Alyssa Canty, direktor ng mga programa ng kabataan para sa Common Cause, na ang mga kabataan ay madalas na nagsisimulang makita ang mga epekto ng patakarang sibiko.

"Kapag sila ay 16 o 17 taong gulang, nagsisimula sila sa kanilang unang part-time na trabaho," Canty pointed out. "So may income na sila, so they're purchasing things, so they are paying sales tax, but they have no say in what happens to those tax dollars."

Nakikita ni Canty ang late high school bilang isang magandang panahon para makipag-ugnayan sa mga kabataan.

"Kadalasan mga 16, 17 years old, yun junior, senior...

"The Alabama legislature's defiance of a clear mandate from the Supreme Court to discriminate against Black voters is so brazen, a delaying tactic seems to be the only explanation that makes any sense," says Dan Vicuna, director of redistricting and representation at the advocacy group Common Cause.

"I think it's not going to sit well with the Supreme Court," he says.

Emma Steiner, information accountability project manager with the non-partisan group Common Cause, said disinformation can often be hard to spot.

"A lot of times people fall for disinformation," said Steiner, "because it seems to confirm something they already believe and that's where people get tripped up."

Steiner recommended that people always refer to official sources for voting information - including Secretary of States' offices or local election boards.

"Disinformation spreaders and...

Susan Lerner, executive director of the good government group Common Cause New York, said politicians should not hold fundraisers without declaring their intentions.

"Common Cause/NY believes that candidates must explicitly announce what office they are running for when asking donors for money - and not build up a war chest for an unknown position," she said in a statement. "New York law must change so that candidates are only able to raise money once they've announced their campaign for an intended office."

When I was in the Supreme Court last December listening to oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, I was struck by Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s questions in this case that put the future of American democracy’s checks and balances at risk.

Barrett doubted that the “independent state legislature theory” should give state legislatures absolute power to write laws for federal elections without facing state judicial review. And Barrett probed repeatedly about when, if at all, the Supreme Court should intervene in state court...

Sean McMorris, a member of government transparency nonprofit California Common Cause, said he’s unsure whether the city needs to eliminate the cap at all.

“I know that San Jose is being proactive, but it is not clear to me that the SCOTUS ruling, which pertained to federal campaign finance law and post-election fundraising, would necessarily apply to all local campaign finance laws pertaining to candidate loans or that a city cannot narrowly tailor such a law to avoid running afoul of the SCOTUS ruling,” he wrote in an...