Election Day---Voting Rights Concerns

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day: Voting-Rights Concerns

Interviews Available

TOVA WANG, (202) 736-5729, twang@commoncause.org, http://www.commoncause.org
Wang is the vice president for research at Common Cause.

WENDY WEISER, [via Susan Lehman], (212) 998-6318, susan.lehman@nyu.edu, http://www.brennancenter.org
Weiser is the deputy director at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

CHRIS KROMM, (919) 419-8311 ext 26, c.kromm@southernstudies.org, http://www.southernstudies.org/facingsouth
Kromm is the executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies.

ALEX KEYSSAR, (617) 495-1042, alex_keyssar@harvard.edu, http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/alexander_keyssar
Keyssar is the Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the author of the book "The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States."

HARVEY WASSERMAN, (614) 231-0507, (614) 738-3646, harvey@freepress.org,
Wasserman is co-author of the books "What Happened in Ohio?" and "As Goes Ohio."

RICHARD KIMBALL, (406) 859-8683, aelm@votesmart.org, http://www.votesmart.org
Kimball is the president of Project Vote Smart.

SUJATHA JAHAGIRDAR, (323) 309-6120, sujatha@studentpirgs.org, http://www.newvotersproject.org/
Jahagirdar is the program director for the New Voters Project of the Student Public Interest Research Group.

PAUL SULLIVAN, (202) 558-4553, Paul@VeteransForCommonSense.org, http://www.VeteransForCommonSense.org
Sullivan is the executive director of Veterans for Common Sense.

MATTHEW SEGAL, (847) 502-5012, matthew.segal@savevoting.org, http://www.savevoting.org/
Segal is the founder and executive director of the Student Association for Voter Empowerment.

MICHAEL ALVAREZ, JONATHAN KATZ, [via Jon Weiner], (626) 395-3226, jrweiner@caltech.edu, http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
Alvarez and Katz are both professors of political science at Caltech and co-directors of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. They will be available on a conference call on Wednesday morning, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss voting technology issues. [For the conference call dial (877) 468-2139; participant code: #150292]

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167