Gregory Allyn Palast is an author and a freelance journalist who often worked for the BBC and The Guardian. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but he has also worked with labour unions and consumer advocacy groups.
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration. It is charged with administering payments to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements,adopting voluntary voting system guidelines,and accrediting voting system test laboratories and certifying voting equipment. It is also charged with developing and maintaining a national mail voter registration form.
A precinct,voting district,polling division,or polling district,is a subdivision of an electoral district,typically a contiguous area within which all electors go to a single polling place to cast their ballots.
The Florida Central Voter File was an internal list of legally eligible voters used by the US Florida Department of State Division of Elections to monitor the official voter lists maintained by the 67 county governments in the State of Florida between 1998 and January 1,2006. The exclusion of eligible voters from the file was a central part of the controversy surrounding the US presidential elections in 2000,which hinged on results in Florida. The 'Florida Central Voter File' was replaced by the Florida Voter Registration System on January 1,2006,when a new federal law,the Help America Vote Act,came into effect.
Voter caging involves challenging the registration status of voters and calling into question the legality of allowing them to vote. Usually it involves sending mail directly to registered voters and compiling a list from mail returned undelivered. Undeliverable mail is seen as proof that the person no longer resides at the address on their voter registration. The resultant list is then used by election officials to purge names from the voter registration rolls or to challenge voters' eligibility to vote on the grounds that the voters no longer reside at their registered addresses.
Election Systems &Software (ES&S) is an Omaha,Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services. The company's offerings include vote tabulators,direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines,voter registration and election management systems,ballot-marking devices,electronic poll books,Ballot on Demand printing services,and absentee voting-by-mail services.
Gracia M. Hillman is the former Vice President for External Affairs at Howard University in Washington,D.C. She grew up in New England,USA. She is the daughter of the late Maria DaGraca Hillman and the late George Hillman. She has two brothers,George Hillman,Jr. and Robert W. Hillman. Ms. Hillman is of Cape Verdean descent.
Rebecca Vigil-Giron is an American politician who served as the secretary of state of New Mexico from 1987 to 1990 and again from 1999 to 2006. She is the longest-serving Secretary of State in New Mexico history. In 2009,Vigil-Giron was indicted by a grand jury on several counts of embezzlement,but the charges were dropped in 2012.
Ruth Johnson is an American politician who served as the Secretary of State of Michigan and is a current member of the Michigan Senate for State Senate District 14. She is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives and the 2006 Republican candidate for lieutenant governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos.
Charles Merwin "Trey" Grayson III is an American politician and attorney who is currently a member at Frost Brown Todd and a principal at CivicPoint. A former Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,Grayson also was a candidate in the 2010 GOP primary to replace retiring Jim Bunning,losing to Rand Paul,the Tea Party favorite for the Republicans. He later was the director of the Harvard Institute of Politics. Prior to his current position,he also served as the CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
Rosemary E. Rodriguez is the State Director for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. She served previously as a commissioner on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission,and chaired the commission in 2008. Prior to that,Rodriguez served on the Denver City Council of the City and County of Denver,District 3,Colorado,United States.
Ron E. Thornburgh,was the 29th Secretary of State of Kansas. He was elected into his first term in 1994 and was subsequently re-elected in 1998,2002,and 2006.
Kevin Lundberg is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. Before his appointment to the State Senate in 2009 as a Republican,he was elected to serve as the Representative to House District 49 in the Colorado House of Representatives in 2003. He was appointed to the Colorado Senate in 2009,replacing Senator Steve Johnson after his resignation. He represented Senate District 15,which encompasses Berthoud,Estes Park,Laporte,Loveland,Red Feather Lakes and Wellington. In the 2015 legislative session he served as the Assistant Majority Leader for the Senate Republican caucus. From 2016 to early 2019,he served on the Joint Budget Committee and chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology supports the Election Assistance Commission in the United States by providing recommendations on voluntary standards and guidelines related to voting equipment and technologies. It is composed of 14 members selected from various standards boards and for their technical and scientific expertise related to voting systems and equipment.
Brian Porter Kemp is an American businessman and politician serving as the 83rd governor of Georgia since January 2019. A Republican,he was the 27th secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018 and a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 until 2007.
Brian Boatright is an American lawyer and judge,who is the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge on the Colorado District Court from 1999 to 2011.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Georgia on November 6,2018. All of Georgia's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Georgia's fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives. Neither U.S. Senate seat was up for election in 2018. The Republican Party won every statewide office in 2018.
Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck was a database in the United States which aggregated voter registration records from multiple states to identify voters who may have registered or voted in two or more states. Crosscheck was developed in 2005 by Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh in conjunction with Iowa,Missouri,and Nebraska. In December 2019,the program was suspended indefinitely as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas challenging Kansas' management of the program. Prior to Crosscheck's legally mandated suspension,a dozen states had withdrawn from the program citing the inaccurate data and risk of violating voters' privacy rights. Crosscheck was also accused of facilitating unlawful purges of voters in a racially discriminatory manner.
Several elections took place in the U.S state of Georgia in 2020. The general election was held on November 3,2020,and the runoff on January 5,2021. A combined partisan primary for president and all other offices on the ballot was held on June 9,2020,with a primary runoff held on August 11.
Greg Morris is an American politician from Georgia. Morris is a former Democratic member and a former Republican member of Georgia House of Representatives.
