Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.

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12 August 2008
We can't just think we voted and hope we voted. We have to know we voted. And, under present circumstances, most people have no clue as to whether they voted...
14 July 2008
Count my vote – a citizen's guide to voting by Steven Rosenfeld

Forewarned is Forearmed

AlterNet has been around for the last ten...
04 April 2008
A Tale of Three Men: Pete, Norman, and Bill
More from the Take Back America Conference


I've already written about the energy and...
21 January 2008
Today is Martin Luther King Day. It almost slipped past me unnoticed. In the car this morning, I caught a bit of one of his speeches. Four minutes, tops. Yet...
02 December 2007
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections and the Power of One

I have eagerly awaited David Earnhardt's sequel to Eternal Vigilance:...
23 October 2007
I saw Michael Clayton last night. The issue of accountability, or the lack thereof, threads its way throughout the movie. Simply put, no one is willing to take...

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