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Overview
Nov 06 2008
It is important not only that everyone be able to cast a ballot, but that every vote is counted and meaningful. Voters too often feel their vote won’t matter, whether because they don’t believe in the integrity of the voting system or because they are stuck in non-competitive voting jurisdictions.
Several fundamental reforms, from improved election integrity measures to redistricting reforms can support the integrity of the electoral process and create elections that enhance voters' ability to influence electoral outcomes and have their voice truly heard in the political process.
From The Dispatch
Core Analysis
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Clean and Fair Elections: Policy Options for 2009 - Clean and Fair Elections: Policy Options Download a PDF copy of "Clean and Fair Elections: Policy…
In the News
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TN: Election Reform Activists Go on High Alert Against Senate Attack - The Nashville Scene - Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is making good on his pledge to give his top priority to delaying the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act. Ramsey has placed it on Tuesday's Senate agenda, one of only five bills up for votes before the start of the special session on education reform. <p> Election reform activists have been spurred into action and hope to mobilize in time to stop Ramsey and the Republican-run Senate. "This means we have only one day to flood the Capitol with calls," Liberadio(!) cohost Mary Mancini tells supporters in an email alert. </p>
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Diebold May See Recount - NY Post - The Department of Justice could vote down an already-completed merger of the two biggest makers of voting machines. <p> The Justice Department, Florida and 13 other states have opened investigations into the September marriage between Election Systems & Software and Diebold's Premier Election Solutions, which played a controversial role in the 2004 presidential election, according to a source with direct knowledge of the process. </p>
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Black leaders urge census to change how it counts inmates - Washinton Post - A coalition of African American leaders concerned about minorities being undercounted in the 2010 Census called Wednesday for inmates at federal and state prisons to be tallied in their home communities instead of the towns where they are incarcerated.
Resource Organizations
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Voter Action - <p> Voter Action is a national non-profit organization that seeks to ensure election integrity in the United States through legal advocacy, research, and public education. We aim to protect an open and transparent election process, one in which our elections at the federal, state, and local level are accessible and verifiable. We support the basic civil and political rights of all voters to cast their ballots in an independent manner and to have to their votes accurately recorded and counted. We seek to reclaim our elections for the public domain, controlled by the voters and not by private interests. </p>
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Voters Unite! - <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana">Voters Unite! is a national non-partisan organization dedicated to fair and accurate elections. It focuses on distributing well-researched information to elections officials, elected officials, the media, and the public; as well as providing activists with information they need to work toward transparent elections in their communities. </span>
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National Committee for Voting Integrity - <span style="font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI) is an <a href="http://www.epic.org/">EPIC</a> project that brings together experts on voting issues from across the country to promote constructive dialogue among computer scientists, elections administrators, voting rights advocates, policymakers, the media and the public on the best methods for achieving in practice: fair, reliable, secure, accessible, transparent, accurate, accountable, and auditable public elections. In keeping with the goal of public election administration we are working to ensure that election systems preserve the secret ballot, accuracy, privacy, integrity, and the proper tabulation of the voter's intent regardless of his or her physical condition, language of origin, or literacy ability. </span>
