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Citizens United v. FEC: Time for a Free Speech for People Amendment?

January 21, 2010

Jeff Clements American Constitution Society Blog Jan 21 2010

Press Release: Citizens for Election Integrity MN, League of Women Voters MN & Common Cause MN To Observe Recounted Races

November 14, 2008

St. Paul, MN – November 14, 2008 – Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN), League of Women Voters Minnesota, and Common Cause Minnesota are working in coalition as the only non-partisan observers of Minnesota’s 2008 election recount.

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Consensus leads to voting process fix. Hard work to build bipartisan solutions pays off.

March 10, 2010

A Star Tribune Editorial.

The revelation of a high error rate in absentee voting that came from the 2008-09 Coleman-Franken U.S. Senate recount wasn't for naught after all. With strong bipartisan votes on Monday, both the Minnesota House and the Senate approved legislation aimed at reducing errors in casting and processing absentee ballots. Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to sign it.

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CEIMN Releases Report About 2008 Recount and MN's Election System

February 25, 2010

From the introduction:
This document is the response of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN) and Common Cause Minnesota (CCMN), to the Center of the American Experiment (CAE) report: No Longer a National Model. Fifteen Recommendations for Fixing Minnesota Election Law and Practice.

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Judge orders more testing of vote machines

February 1, 2010

By Meir Rinde, NJ.com

A judge ordered a panel of experts to evaluate the security of New Jersey’s 11,000 voting machines Monday but stopped short of decommissioning the Sequioa Voting Systems devices or requiring them to be retrofitted to produce a paper trail.

Ruling in a five-and-a-half-year-old case, Mercer County Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg ordered the creation of a new panel of computer security experts to re-evaluate the machines within 120 days to determine whether they comply with a law requiring that they be accurate and reliable, plaintiffs said Monday.