City Club of Cleveland Panel to Address "Does Your Vote Count?"

On Wednesday, September 27th at noon, a panel will talk about what went wrong in Cuyahoga County's May 2006 election and how to insure that future voting is timely, accurate, and reliable. Speakers include:

• Cleveland Municipal Judge Ronald Adrine, chair of the Cuyahoga Election Review Panel that investigated the causes and scope of problems that occurred in the county’s May primary elections
• Dr. Victoria Lovegren, a mathematics lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, computer scientist, and founder and director of Ohio Vigilance, a watchdog organization that investigates election abnormalities
• Cuyahoga County Board of Elections director Michael Vu.
• Moderator:Roslyn Talerico, vice president of the League of Women Voters-Cuyahoga Area, chair of the League of Women Voters of Ohio’s Juvenile Justice Committee, and representative of the Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition.

Tickets are $15 for members and for $25 non members. You can view a live webcast by visiting www.cityclub.org

If you haven't kept up with the controversy on what happened with Cuyahoga County's election in May, here is a listing of resources to prepare for this event:

• Cuyahoga Election Investigation – See the Investigation links at the bottom of the page for copies of the two reports that have examined the Cuyahoga County election system.
• Some Major Sources of Voter Disenfranchisement in Cuyahoga County and Suggested Recommendations, Report to the Cuyahoga Election Review Panel, June 9, 2006, from The Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition
• Fixing the elections, a Plain Dealer summary of the recommendations from the panel that investigated May's election problems in Cuyahoga County
• Plain Dealer Index of Election News – There is not much on election reform but some of the articles they have written on the topic are shown here. [Either they have a special section on election problems that is buried in their website or they haven't set one up yet.]