Election Reform Conference

I received the following invitation via e-mail:

A Report to the Nation on America's Election Process

December 7, 2004

The Century Foundation, Common Cause, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights invite you to bring your questions and concerns regarding the November 2 elections to an event entitled “Voting in 2004: A Report to the Nation on America’s Election Process.” RSVP for this important event now by clicking on the following link.

www.commoncause.org/RSVPVotingin2004

The event is open to the public, the press, Members of Congress and their staff and the academic community. Statements will be made by Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), http://www.hoyer.house.gov) Representative Bob Ney (R-OH) (http://ney.house.gov/) and Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) (http://holt.house.gov/)

We will begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue to 4:30 p.m. in Washington, DC in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Room G50. We will hear testimony from experts who were on the ground on November 2. Expert panels will explore issues and problems that occurred in the following areas.

* Absentee Ballots, Military and Overseas Voting
* Provisional Ballots
* Polling Place Operations and Poll Workers
* Voting Machines
* Voter Registration
* Voter Suppression and Intimidation

All panels will be followed by question and answer sessions.

Let us know right away if you plan on coming to the event by filling out the aforementioned RSVP form:

www.commoncause.org/RSVPVotingin2004.

Invited and participating individuals and organizations include:

People for the American Way, The Brennan Center for Justice, Rock the Vote, Demos, the National Association of Secretaries of State, election officials, Verified Voting, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Electionline.org, the American Civil Liberties Union, American Families United, The Advancement Project, and experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, George Washington University School of Law, American University and Johns Hopkins University.

Posted by Rick Hasen at December 1, 2004 07:44 AM