A coalition of Black leaders, including National Urban League President Marc H. Morial and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), announced that beginning next Wednesday, they will hold a nightly vigil on Capitol Hill until Congress extends key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 set to expire next year. |
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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...)