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ElectionWatch '04 - Systems Failure
August 4, 2004
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A healthy democracy depends not only on the leaders whom voters choose to elect, but also the systems used to cast votes. When election systems fail, so does democracy. On this edition, we take a look at the disenfranchisement of African Americans in Florida, the debate over electronic voting machines, and Electoral College reform in the state of Colorado.
Featuring:
Betty Reed, political action chair, Hillsborough County NAACP; Christopher Uggen, sociology professor, University of Minnesota; Al Frymier, Florida Council of Churches; Teresa Hommel, activist and web author; Bob Fitrakis, senior editor, The Free Press; Mary Jo Kilroy, Franklin County commissioner; David Dill, founder, verifiedvoting.org; Alan Dechert, president, Open Voting Consortium; Teresa Fedor, Ohio state senator; Bev Harris, investigative journalist; Greg Palast, investigative journalist; Polly Baca, former Colorado state senator; Rick Ridder, political consultant; Ted Halaby, chair, Colorado Republicans; Rob Richie, executive director, Center for Voting and Democracy; Dan Johnson-Weinberger, director, Midwest Democracy Center.
For more information:
Hillsborough County NAACP
PO Box 4266
Tampa, FL 22677
813-935-7123
www.hillsboroughnaacp.org
Department of Sociology
University of Minnesota
267 19th Avenue South #909
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Florida Council of Churches
www.wheresthepaper.org
The Free Press
1240 Bryden Road
Columbus, OH 43205
614-253-2571
www.freepress.org
Franklin County Board of Commissioners
373 South High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
614-462-3322
www.co.franklin.oh.us/Commissioners
Department of Computer Science
Gates Building 3A
Stanford, CA 94305-9030
650-725-3642
http://chicory.Stanford.EDU/dill/
Open Voting Consortium
4700 Allegretto Way
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916-791-0456; mail@openvotingconsortium.org;
www.openvotingconsortium.org
Black Box Voting
www.blackboxvoting.com
Greg Palast
media@gregpalast.com
www.gregpalast.com
RBI Strategy & Research
1900 Grant Street, Suite 1170
Denver, CO 80203
303-832-2444
www.ridder-braden.com
Colorado GOP
1777 South Harrison Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80210
303-758-3333
www.cologop.org
Center for Voting and Democracy
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 610
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Midwest Democracy Center
325 West Huron #304
Chicago, IL 60610
312-587-7060