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A System Still Broken: Reports on the 2001 Elections  Printer-Friendly
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The Century Foundation
10/15/2002
9:00-10:30 AM
The National Press Club, 529 14th street, NW, Washington, DC
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So we asked the four authors that are at the table to monitor the 2001 elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and Los Angeles, to see how those jurisdictions performed a year later. And we thought that this would give us some indication of whether any real progress had been made since 2000, and also what problems still remained even after all the problems were revealed. It would also very importantly keep the spotlight on the issue of election reform all across the country at the local, state and national level.
So the findings of those four endeavors will be what we talk about today, and also the question of whether the election bill that is likely to be passed by Congress and signed by the President, is going to actually address the problems that our authors found, and if the bill is really going to address the problems that exist at the state and local
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