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Latest Developments

U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit

Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024)

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024)

Election Protection

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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Free Speech For People’s Statement on the 2024 Election

Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 12, 2024)

FSFP Updates

Our democracy is worth saving. This election cycle, our democracy has been staggered by blow after blow. We cannot pretend otherwise; to do so would be to accept that this hamstrung system is the one with which we must live. It is not and we do not accept that it is. We will keep fighting
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Ron Fein testifying before the Cambridge City Council

FSFP Letter to Cambridge City Council (The Supreme Court’s decisions in cases such as Buckley v. Valeo and Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett have taken away many viable policy tools, but there are still a few left.)

At the end of the hearing, the Committee voted 3-1 to order the City Manager to “identify an organization or organizations to study and present options to the City Council regarding possibilities for publicly funded municipal elections that takes into account issues unique to Cambridge.” To kickstart this process, we sent the committee a detailed followup letter describing the key public financing options in more detail.

Represent Boston, which has a leadership team composed primarily of Cambridge residents and substantial working relationships with local legal and policy experts at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and MIT Sloan School of Management, is planning to engage closely in policy development. Free Speech For People looks forward to working with both Represent Boston and the City of Cambridge on legal aspects of policy options.