Common Cause

Voting and electionscommon cause Maryland helped pass a statewide ballot initiative to establish election day voter registration.common cause Massachusetts led a coalition to successfully pass automatic voter registration in the bay state.common cause new york helped led the let ny vote coalition to successfully push for the state legislature to pass a package of voting rights reforms, including establishing early voting opportunities, consolidating new york's federal and state primary dates, pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, portable voter registration, and proposed constitutional amendments establishing same day voter registration and no excuse absentee voting. Common cause was instrumental in helping pass the national popular vote (npv) interstate compact in Colorado, new mexico, Delaware, and Oregon.

Redistricting and representationcolorado common cause helped pass two statewide ballot initiatives to create independent citizens redistricting commissions for congressional and state legislative redistricting. We led successful ballot initiatives to pass independent redistricting commissions in several California localities common cause president karen hobert flynn testified before the house oversight & reform committee on h.r. 1, the for the people act, which went viral and was part of the most watched online video ever of an elected official we helped lead the grassroots, communications, and lobbying effort to successfully pass h.r. 1 in the house with unanimous democratic supportour democracy 2018 candidate questionnaire--more than 350 congressional candidates completed our questionnaire to show where they stand on 18 key democracy reform issues 2018 democracy scorecard: this scorecard grades all 535 members of congress on their support for key democracy reforms. Viewers can enter their address and find their members of congress, and how ...

Campaign finance & ethicscommon cause new mexico helped pass a ballot initiative to create a statewide independent ethics commission and worked in the legislature to pass a money in politics disclosure bill. Common cause Maryland helped pass a ballot initiative in baltimore to establish a fair elections fund in order to create a citywide public election financing program. Common cause Oregon worked to pass a campaign finance reform bill that will send an initiative to the 2020 ballot to approve state constitutional authority to enact laws on money in the political process.