They may know as early as next week whether the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will accept their request for a hearing."We wanted to bring attention to the issue of felony disenfranchisement and put a human rights framework on the issue," said Johnson-Blanco,a voting rights attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.By casting the issue as a human rights matter, advocates have another avenue to |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)