Election Expert Tova Wang Reports on Voting Trouble Spots throughout the Day at www.tcf.org and www.reformelections.org

November 6, 2006 — Tuesday’s midterm elections will be closely watched by politicians, pundits, journalists, and concerned citizens around the country and around the world. While most attention will be focused on the race for control of Congress, the voting system could become a significant part of the story—especially in jurisdictions with close elections. The volatile combination of close elections, tremendous political ramifications, new voting machines, and new voting rules could affect both the process and outcomes of elections in some states.

Tova Andrea Wang, democracy fellow at The Century Foundation, who is a nationally known expert on election reform, will be keeping an eye on hot spots for potential problems. She will report during the day from Election Protection Headquarters, the home of 1-866-OUR VOTE, where volunteers will be assisting voters from around the country who are grappling with voting problems. Her reports and analysis will be posted on a blog on The Century Foundation’s Web site, www.tcf.org and Century’s election reform site, www.reformelections.org.

Wang will be following elections in states where the potential for problems is greatest, such as Maryland, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Florida, and Arizona. She also will keep an eye on states where a combination of factors makes them candidates for problems as well. These states include Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Visit www.tcf.org and www.reformelections.org for Wang’s postings during the day and evening, and for analysis in the days following the election. Wang is also available for media interviews. For more information or to arrange interviews, contact Christy Hicks at (212) 452-7723 or (917) 544-2949.

Tova Andrea Wang is the Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonpartisans public policy research organization based in New York City and Washington , D.C. Wang works on election reform and other issues related to civil rights and liberties for The Century Foundation. She was a primary author of “Voting in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004,” a recently released report from The Century Foundation, Common Cause, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. She served, as executive director of The Century Foundation's Post-2004 Election Reform Working Group, which included some of the country’s preeminent election law scholars. In 2001, she was staff person to the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford, of which The Century Foundation was a co-sponsor. She is the author of several election reform reports, and her commentary on this subject has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Journal, Congressional Research Daily, Cspan, MSNBC, national Associated Press reports, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, New York Daily News, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The American Prospect, and Campaigns and Elections, among other media outlets. She has spoken at a number of national election reform conferences and forums, provided her expertise to members of Congress, as well as to state and local officials. Wang is an attorney and a graduate of New York University School of Law, and a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University.