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The Election Center
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By Joyce McCloy, North Carolina Coalition for Verified Voting
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January 01, 2007 |
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Does the Election Center lobby for the voters' or for the interest of the voting industry? The Fox in the Henhouse Series, Part III
 This week a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, The Election Center, will be in Washington DC in full force to lobby our Congressmen. The Joint Election Officials Liaison Committee, comprised of election administrators associated with a range of professional organizations, will be gathering on the first days of the new legislative session to influence decisions, like they influence the actions and decisions of state election directors across the country.
According to the meeting’s description on the Election Center website: “We have booked rooms for the nights of January 3- 6, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H St, N.W., Washington, DC, for the next meeting of those elections and registration administrators who wish to be involved on a national level for Congressional liaison and activity with the Federal agencies affecting voter registration and elections at the local level. Come to Washington to talk directly with Congressional staff about the new legislation. Additionally, we invite the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the Commissioners and staff of the Election Assistance Commission, the U.S. Justice Department and the GAO to present.” They plan to lobby hard.
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The Election Center
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Contributed by Joyce McCloy, NC Coalition for Verified Voting
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January 15, 2006 |
The Election Center Wants To "Improve" Democracy - And The Profit Margins Of Their Corporate Sponsors
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are back at it again, the ethically challenged Election Center.
They have a new web-page, nice layout, though many of the links
still don't work.
Amazing that they are first to recommend electronic solutions
for voting and registration, yet they can't design a working
website. I am sure these broken links are just "glitches" that
happen when skeptical computer scientists try to perform time
travel! But while the Election Center may have a new website, the
mission is the same: promote expensive unreliable and unverifiable
voting machines and the vendors that make a profit from them.
They have a new logo to boot - and now they've given
themselves a subtitle: "The National Association of Election Directors.
But who are they? Near the top of the Election Center's "about" page, it describes itself as more or less a heroic group dedicated to democracy..
"The Election Center’s purpose is to promote, preserve, and improve democracy."
The Election Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting,
preserving, and improving democracy. Its members are government
employees whose profession is to serve in voter registration and
elections administration.
After that encouraging, patriotic, and heart warming description of
the Election Center and its focus on democracy, have alook at what is
buried near the bottom of the page - the "money changers" clause.
"The Center’s members also include suppliers of election
products and services, including voting systems, voter registration
software, voting booths, ballots, election supplies, etc. Members are able to visit with the providers of those goods and
services at the national conference where members can learn what is
available in the latest technology and election products."
How ethical is it for corporations to be members of
an organization that trains, advises, and represents our election
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The Election Center
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By New Yorkers for Verified Voting (www.nyvv.org)
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October 08, 2005 |
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Doug Lewis is the Executive Director of the Election Center in Houston,
a private, “non-profit organization that serves the elections and voter
registration profession”[1] by sponsoring training and certification
programs for election administrators and vendors. The Election Center
has about 1,000 dues-paying members, including state and county
election officials and "suppliers of election products and
services." [2]
Prior to taking over the Election Center in 1994,
Lewis was president and director of Micro Trade Mart, a company that
traded in used computer parts. He claims political experience as a
presidential assistant, aide to Texas governor John Connolly, and
chairman of state Democratic parties. Lewis has developed a continuing
education program for election officials and the first Code of Ethics
for voter registrars and elections administrators.
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The Election Center
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By Joyce McCloy, Coordinator, N.C. Coalition for Verifiable Voting
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August 26, 2005 |
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Editor's Note: The Election Center influences the actions and
decisions of state election directors across the country. In this
article, originally published on VoteTrustUSA.org in June, 2005, Joyce
McCloy takes a close look at the organization. New photos
supplied by John Gideon.
How long will "The Election
Center" be allowed to act as an educator, trainer and advisor of
election officials? How long will it continue to give bad advice
to North Carolina election officials? The Election Center viewed from the East 
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