Bob Fitrakis, PhD, JD of the Institute of Contemporary Journalism has become a fellow of the Institute. He has been involved in issues around election integrity in Ohio for twenty years and will be writing on election integrity issues in the 2016 presidential election. Bob is also an attorney and functions as an attorney in election issues as well as other legal matters. He is also a political author, political candidate, and Professor of Political Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College. He has published several books on election integrity and is publisher and contributing writer to the Free Press.
John Brakey of Audit-AZ (Arizona)has been an election integrity activist since 2003. He has worked extensively in Arizona identifying and pursuing election fraud. He works on lawsuits seeking to stop election fraud together with Arizona attorney Bill Risner JD. He is the election integrity activist that first spotted the manipulation of the Arizona primary of 2016. He is working together with Bev Harris on vote fractionalizing and the answer to stopping it which is saving ballot images and then examining them for election fraud- a truly effective response to a very dangerous problem.
Jim Soper has been a democracy advocate since 2005. He is co-chair of the Voting Rights Task Force, and author of CountedAsCast.org. He has also been a senior software consultant, and teacher. His website: www.countedascast.org For more information on the conference, go to: https://nvrtf.org For more information on election integrity issues, go to: https://countedascast.org For ongoing support of our efforts, please consider contributing to https://www.gofundme.com/takebackthev...
Bill Risner has been a trial attorney in private practice in Tucson, Arizona for 50 years. Bill has represented on a pro bono basis the Tucson community of activists beginning with the Viet Nam War protestors, environmentalists, feminists, Mexican American groups and so forth down the list of those who support fundamental progressive change. Bill has been very active in political and voting issues throughout his career. For example, he successfully represented the Pima County Democratic Party in a redistricting challenge to a Republican imposed new Tucson Ward map in 1970. He represented the Pima County Democratic Party for decades in election issues and has been hired by the county Board of Supervisors and County Recorder as an election law specialist. For the past 19 years, Bill has handled multiple cases focused on election integrity issues. One case resulted in the County admitting fraudulently rigging a 2 billion dollar tax increase and road plan that its lawyers referred to as a "discrete incident of historical wrongdoing." He is a founding member of AUDIT-USA.
Steven Rosenfeld is a reporter and writing fellow at Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute, where he is focusing on how technology can make voting more transparent and trustworthy—or not! He has reported for nationwide public radio networks, websites, and newspapers and produced talk radio and music podcasts. Since October 2018, he has focused on the landscape at the finish line in elections: the steps between the close of voting on Election Day and the certification of the results. In that phase, he has a range of developments that can make the vote counting and double-checking process more accountable and transparent—or less so. He has reported on the split among transparency activists surrounding the use of digital ballot images for comprehensive audits and recounts, and the more widely endorsed but less accurate process of estimating vote count accuracy called risk-limiting audits. He has also reported on legislative developments surrounding the recount process, should those be triggered in 2020. The common thread through this reporting is looking for evidence trails that legitimize the outcomes. He has written five books, including profiles of campaigns, voter suppression, voting rights guides and a WWII survival story currently being made into a film. His latest book is Democracy Betrayed: How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election (Hot Books, March 2018).
Lori Grace, MA is the founder of the Institute for American Democracy and Election Integrity and is also currently a fellow of the Institute. She started the Institute with awarding Carolyn Crnich (now retired) of Humboldt County for her excellent work as a registrar supporting election integrity. She has written recently in issues that came up during the presidential primary. Both Lori and Bob are very oriented towards creating possible solutions to America’s many problems in election integrity and are excited by the increased amount of interest in the American public about this issue.
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