Reform Elections.org Events: Voting Victories: An Analysis of Election Reform Successes in the States

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Voting Victories: An Analysis of Election Reform Successes in the States

National Network for Election Reform
11/14/2007 2:30-4:00 pm
teleconference

Join elected officials and election reform advocates from across the country for a National Network for Election Reform-sponsored teleconference that highlights state election reform victories from across the country in 2007!

Three panels of elected officials and election reform experts will discuss what proactive measures worked and how regressive election reform legislation was defeated. The teleconference will spotlight Election Day Registration (EDR), deceptive practices, and voter ID.

Please go to http://www.pfaw.org/go/VotingVictories to RSVP.

Speakers:

Betty Ahrens, Executive Director, Iowa Citizen Action Network
Virginia Delegate Kris Amundson, sponsor of the deceptive practices legislation adopted in 2007
Kansas Senator Donald Betts, Ranking Minority, Elections and Local Government
North Carolina Representative Deborah K. Ross, sponsor of the Election Day Registration legislation that was enacted in 2007
Laurie VanHoose, Advocacy Inc. (Texas)

Sponsored by the The Brennan Center for Justice, Demos, Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights, People For the American Way and the Service Employees International Union.

The Century Foundation conducts public policy research and analyses of economic, social, and foreign policy issues, including inequality, retirement security, election reform, media studies, homeland security, and international affairs. The foundation produces books, reports, and other publications, convenes task forces, and working groups and operates eight informational Web sites. With offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., The Century Foundation is nonprofit and nonpartisan and was founded in 1919 by Edward A. Filene.