Reply #3: The SSRC is closely associated with the Council on Foreign Relations

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which while bipartisan is also a highly elitist and undemocratic. As such I'm concerned about just how much The National Research Commission on Elections and Voting is an 'independent scholarly research group' and how much it is a just another ruling class tool for social control. Quite possibly a goodly part of the ruling class takes umbrage at the methodologies of right wing but that doesn't mean they want the rabble poking their unwashed noses into the business of running this country or find the concept of 'one man, one vote' any less childish that the wingnuts do.

At any rate here's a link to my research on the SSRC I posted on Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/17/211138/455

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The National Research Commission on Elections and Voting was created by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in October of 2004 allegedly as a non-partisan independent initiative intended to bring scholarly research, knowledge and perspective to bear on improving the integrity of the electoral process, regardless of the outcome of the November 2nd election. http://election04.ssrc.org/pressrelease/October2004.pdf

However in my mind while it might be bipartisan it is very unlikely that the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting is a genuinely independent research group since the SSRC itself appears to be a tool of the corporate elite as of the 16 members of the SSCR Board of Directors, I've been able to identify at least five including the Chair of the Board as being members of the Council of Foreign Relations simply from checking the SSCR's own biographies or the Board members own Curriculum Vitae.They are:

http://www.ssrc.org/inside/about/board_of_directors.page

Lisa Anderson - Chair of the Board

Barry Eichengreen

Stanley N. Katz

Orville Schell

Kathryn Sikkink

documentation follows...
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