But John M. Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, called the GOP statement “a knee-jerk reaction to what is a fairly common occurrence in elections all across the country.”

“This is not the first time a candidate has withdrawn from a race but remained on the ballot, and it won’t be the last time,” he said. “Restricting a popular and secure way for voters to vote is not the right reaction.”

In offering 20 days of early voting, Rhode Island is matching the national average in the 47...

Stephen Spaulding, vice president of policy for the nonprofit Common Cause, said gambling on elections is bad for democracy.

"You can imagine wealthy gamblers could make significant money by exploiting disinformation to influence an electoral outcome that would protect the bettors' bottom line," Spaulding pointed out. "This again opens up a significant risk to the perception that the winners and losers of an election are not determined by voters, but by those who stand to gain financially."

Spaulding noted the...

Những người chỉ trích lưu ý rằng không có gì đảm bảo rằng hội nghị sẽ chỉ giới hạn ở kiểm soát súng nếu được kích hoạt. Nhóm ủng hộ dân chủ phi đảng phái Common Cause đầu tuần này đã chỉ trích động thái này, lưu ý rằng một hội nghị thiếu các rào cản pháp lý và chuẩn mực lịch sử.

"Bằng cách triệu tập một hội nghị hiến pháp, Thống đốc Newsom sẽ mời những nhóm lợi ích đặc biệt giàu có mở nắp Hiến pháp Hoa Kỳ và can thiệp vào các quyền và tự do của chúng ta—mà không có một quy tắc nào cả", nhóm này cho biết trong một thông cáo báo chí. "Có rất ít rủi ro đối với các quyền tự do...

“Doing a convention puts every civil right we have in this country at risk,” said Viki Harrison, Director of Constitutional Conventions and Protecting Dissent Programs for left-of-center watchdog group Common Cause in an interview with The Center Square. “The entire Constitution could be rewritten.”

“The amendment process is a lot more in the open,” Harrison said. “You're going through the state legislatures where people can testify. You are going through Congress where people can interact with their legislators...

“We’re very hopeful that what came out in Alabama will bode well for Florida,” said Kathay Feng, vice president of programs for Common Cause, one of the plaintiffs in the federal court challenge set for next month in Tallahassee.

Feng said justices signaled that the “Voting Rights Act is not dead.”

Tuesday’s meeting was the sixth in a series of 19 statewide town halls sponsored by the good-government advocacy group Common Cause North Carolina.

Several years ago in Raleigh, Moral Mondays protesters descended on the Legislative Building to protest the legislature’s actions. That movement faded during the COVID pandemic. Now Common Cause is seeking to rally people where they live.

Gino Nuzzolillo, a 25-year-old staffer at Common Cause, conceived the town hall series and led the one at Gibsonville. “We...

Marilyn Carpinteyro, Common Cause interim co-president

"No American is above the law – not even former presidents. The charges that a federal grand jury leveled today against former President Donald Trump are profoundly serious and must go to trial. The charges themselves are unprecedented, but so are the events that led to them.”

"Paper ballots marked by the voter — which New York currently uses — is the election security gold ... standard," said Sarah Goff, deputy director of Common Cause New York, on Tuesday. Adding a new machine, she said, comes off as "solving a problem we don't have in New York."

"Điều tôi lo ngại nói chung là người ta muốn nghĩ rằng các đề xuất và luật lệ đến từ những người đang bầu ra những người đại diện cho họ trong cơ quan lập pháp, và rằng có một sáng kiến địa phương nào đó cho việc đó", Bob Phillips, giám đốc điều hành của Common Cause NC, cho biết. "Nhưng khi có một "nhà máy hóa đơn" thực sự phục vụ lợi ích của các nhóm lợi ích đặc biệt trong giới doanh nghiệp Mỹ và các chương trình nghị sự của cánh hữu, thì điều đó thật đáng báo động."

However, Stephen Spaulding, vice president for policy at the group Common Cause, said this would put even more pressure on the health of democracy in current political environment.

"This opens up a significant risk to the perception that the winners and losers of an election are not determined by voters, but by those who stand to gain financially," he said.

Common Cause has sent a filing to the commission, asking that it reject the proposal. Leadership with the House Task Force on Strengthening Democracy issued a...