Gregory Allyn Palast is an author and a freelance journalist who has 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 or voting district,polling district or polling division,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.
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.
Charles Merwin "Trey" Grayson III is an American politician and attorney who is a member at Frost Brown Todd and a principal at CivicPoint. A former Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,Grayson was a candidate in the 2010 Republican primary to replace retiring U.S. Senator Jim Bunning,losing to Rand Paul,the Tea Party favorite. He later was the director of the Harvard Institute of Politics. Grayson also served as 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.
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.
The 2002 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 5,2002 to elect the governor of Colorado. Bill Owens,the Republican incumbent,defeated Democratic nominee Rollie Heath to win a second term. Owen's win set the record for biggest win by a Republican in a Colorado gubernatorial election. As of 2024,this is the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Colorado and the only time in the past half-century that a Republican won a majority in the state.
The 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1998 to select the governor of the state of Colorado. Under newly applicable term limits,incumbent Governor Roy Romer,a Democrat,was unable to seek re-election. Lieutenant Governor Gail Schoettler,ran to succeed Romer,and won the Democratic primary;her running mate,Bernie Buescher,won the lieutenant-gubernatorial primary unopposed. In the Republican primary,Bill Owens,the State Treasurer,and his eventual running mate,Joe Rogers,won their respective primaries by wide margins.
Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 83rd governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,Kemp served as the state's 27th Secretary of State from 2010 to 2018,and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007.
Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician,lawyer,voting rights activist,and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017,serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,Abrams founded Fair Fight Action,an organization to address voter suppression,in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia,including in the 2020 presidential election,when Joe Biden narrowly won the state,and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections,which gave Democrats control of the Senate.
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.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is a bipartisan regulatory agency of the state of Wisconsin established to administer and enforce election laws in the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was established by a 2015 act of the Wisconsin Legislature which also established the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to administer campaign finance,ethics,and lobbying laws. The two commissions began operation on June 30,2016,replacing the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB),which was abolished.
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.
Ginette E. Dennis is an American politician from Colorado,U.S. A Republican,she served as Secretary of State of Colorado from 2005 to 2006. She was appointed Secretary of State by Governor Bill Owens and succeeded Donetta Davidson. Previously,she was elected to the Colorado State Senate and served there from 1994 to 2001.
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.
The 2022 Colorado Secretary of State election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the Secretary of State of Colorado. Incumbent Democrat Jena Griswold won re-election to a second term,improving on her 2018 results.
