Public Forum, recorded on Sept 8, 2009 in Northampton, MA, on a pending case, discussing the upholding of restrictions on corporate political campaign expenditures and potential implications for the concept of "corporate personhood." Part 1 features Jeff Clements, attorney who filed an amicus brief representing five citizens groups arguing against expanding corporate First Amendment rights. Part 2 features remarks by Voter Action Legal Director, John Bonifaz.
Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego and the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed return-oriented programming to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes.
On January 26 & 27, 2009, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation gathered VoICE grantees together for WHAT WORKS: A Post-Elections Report Back. WHAT WORKS provided a much-needed opportunity to share the strategies that nonprofit organizations used to inspire voter participation and protect voter access to the polls during the 2008 election cycle.
Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite discusses the issues with electronic voting and with the privatization of our elections on CNN's Lou Dobbs: Democracy at Risk
