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Submitted by: Corie Tanida, Project Coordinator, Common Cause Hawaii On Monday, May 13, 2013 Hawaii Public Radio and Common Cause Hawaii hosted a discussion group to review the 2013 legislative session, called The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.  It was also my first day on the job as Project Coordinator for Common Cause Hawaii. [...]

HB1303 will give Colorado citizens greater opportunity to participate in our elections by simplifying the process while maintaining full options for registration and voting.

The President nominated Tom Wheeler to replace Julius Genachowski as the next FCC Chair yesterday.

A new report by Common Cause Massachusetts shows that limiting outside spending in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts helped to increased electoral transparency, accountability, and fairness, and calls on the current Senate candidates Ed Markey and Gabriel Gomez to agree to limit outside spending in the current election. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC (2010) [...]

Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein reported this morning about a letter to President Obama that we signed with six other watchdog organizations.  Unfortunately, Mr. Klein dismisses campaign finance reform as a “quixotic cause” because the White House will “never get the votes to truly change campaign finance laws,” rendering the President’s inaction, regrettably,  as making [...]