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John Bonifaz to appear as witness before House Admin Committee

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Voter Action's John Bonifaz will appear as a witness before the US House Administration Committee today for a hearing on voting rights problems identified to date via the 866-MYVOTE1 hotline this primary election season.  Along with John, the Committee will hear testimony from nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Tom Joyner, Ken Smukler, President of InfoVoter Technologies, and Greg Moore, Executive Director of the NAACP's National Voter Fund.

 

 

View the LIVE webcast  as they discuss the 2008 Presidential Primaries and Caucuses

And "What we've learned so far".

 

Wednesday

April 9th, 2008

11:30 AM EST

 

On issues ranging from voter registration to high-tech disenfranchisement, communities are working to become part of the solution to help improve the elections process. The MyVOTE1 Hotline has received thousands of calls through the primary season so far. Testimony will cover what the government can do to respond to existing reports and how it can support ongoing oversight and monitoring efforts.

 

For More Details, or to Watch the Live Webcast, click here. 

 

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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...)
 

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