Link to final draft of 2008 Democratic Party Platform

By Democratic Party Platform Committee Posted by Laura Stein (about the submitter) (Page 1 of 1 pages) 2 comments

http://www.demconvention.com/assets/downloads/2008-Democratic-Platform-by-Cmte-08-13-08.pdf

Disappointing section on voting rights (pp.55-56) that would outlaw lever machines, doesn't mandate open source code for either voting machines or tabulators, nor does it mandate non-partisan civil service state BOE's. Election reformers, we have our work cut out for us.

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