The AP<\/i> covered the new report in a story yesterday<\/a> which shines a fairly positive light on it yet manages to include a couple of paragraphs which jump out as huge<\/i> red flags. Here’s a couple of them from the AP<\/i> story [emphasis added]…<\/p>\n So here we have yet another “nonprofit, nonpartisan” organization dedicated to Election issues, who have a clear conflict of interest due to their financial alliance with the Voting Machine Companies instead of the American Citizens whose interests they claim to represent.<\/p>\n Unlike the now-discredited “American Center for Voting Rights”<\/a>, a phony front group founded by GOP operatives as a smokescreen for real<\/i> Election Reform issues, Election Center has been around for a number of years. But their claims<\/a> that their mission is to “improve service to voters, the public, the taxpayers and to government” is completely belied by the companies they keep…or that keep them…<\/p>\n Here’s a screenshot of the agenda from their upcoming August “National Conference” in Beverly Hills\/Hollywood<\/a>. It will likely tell you all you need to know about this group:<\/p>\n
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\nThe report also urges state legislators to consider an “independently verifiable” record of each voter’s ballot from ATM-style touchscreen voting machines that could be electronic, video or some other form — pointedly downplaying a widespread push for paper receipts from touchscreens.<\/b>
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\nThe Election Center has come in for criticism after reports that the nonprofit, nonpartisan group accepts contributions from voting machine manufacturers<\/b>. Two members of the task force are former local election administrators who’ve formed their own election-related businesses.<\/div>\n
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