Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Voting Rights Groups Respond to Holt Bill

Reposted from our friend Mark Crispin Miller , the response of some voting rights groups to the recent New York Times endorsement of the Holt Bill.

From Bev Harris:

CHERRY-PICKING ELECTION REFORM ADVOCATES, STACKING THE EXPERTS DECK

(You may discuss this at http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/80460.html)

As far as I can tell, the editorial–which did not even provide the correct name for the bill
–did not contact or seek any input from the many voting rights and election reform groups
that oppose this legislation. Among those omitted were Black Box Voting, VotersUnite.org,
Open Voting Consortium, and Democracy for New Hampshire, whose Nancy Tobi has been examining Holt’s various renditions of his bill for years; nor did the Times note the opposition
of Brad Friedman of Bradblog, interview voting rights scholar and attorney Paul Lehto, or
confer with the Election Defense Alliance.

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