Great report from Nashville!

[garybeck]

Better late than never... Please help spread the word about this article.

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National Election Reform Conference Inspires Attendees
Experts, Activists, and Legislators meet to "Save our Democracy"

by Vickie Karp, Coalition for Visible Ballots



The National Election Reform Conference to Save our Democracy was held in Nashville Tennessee on April 8th to 10th, 2005. Vickie Karp, National Chairperson of the Coalition for Visible Ballots attended the conference and provies this informative report.

I was fortunate enough to attend the first ever National Election Reform Conference in Nashville last week, hosted by Bernie Ellis and his organization, the "Gathering to Save Our Democracy". This group is to be commended for their initiative in taking on such a formidable task as organizing this major event. They only came together as a group last December 12th after the Capital 51 March spurred protesters of our November election to hold rallies in approximately 30 states across the country-a very successful national effort initiated and coordinated by Kip Humphrey of Houston, Texas (who was also in attendance at the conference.) I was in Nashville to represent both Black Box Voting and the Coalition for Visible Ballots, and to learn everything I could from the preeminent experts presenting there.

The event was compared to the first Continental Congress; this notable Nashville conference brought election reform activists and political figures from 30 states together to cover a number of important issues surrounding the critical election crisis in our country.

Complete article:

http://www.solarbus.org/election/articles/050506-karp-nashville.shtml

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[Fly by night]

1. Gary, thanks for posting this. Vickie did a great job of summarizing ...

... the speakers at the "Nash-ional" conference. Thanks kindly, Vickie.

For those of you who are interested, we have two of the "Nash-ional" panel discussions online for internet audio downloading. Hopefully, the rest will be on-line soon and we'll start a thread at that time.

We should also have VHS copies of the plenary sessions available to us next week. We'll start a thread when that happens so we can get VHS copies out to anyone who is interested.

Peace, out from Planet Nashville (where Spring has really sprung!).

[Wilms]

2. kick n/t