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Today, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced her plans to make the raw data behind California’s lobbyists and campaign finance database available, online, on one spreadsheet available to the public and updated daily. Secretary Bowen’s announcement is a reversal from a position she has long held since Common Cause began asking for this disclosure in 2011.

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

UPDATE: (5/3/13) The House just re-passed the bill with the Senate amendments! The Governor is up next.  UPDATE: (5/2/13) We’ve made it through Third Reading in the Senate!  UPDATE: (4/19/13) The Colorado Voter Access & Modernized Elections Act passed through the Colorado House this morning. We will likely see it introduced in the Colorado Senate early [...]

A new voter suppression bill in North Carolina targets student voters… and their parents

(Read a recap of the hearing held by the Jont Committee on Election Laws on early voting and no-excuse absentee voting, click here.) After a successful hearing on early voting and no-excuse absentee voting two weeks ago, the Joint Committee on Election Laws reconvened last Wednesday for its second hearing of the legislative session. It heard [...]