Who holds common cause accountable? I do

November 23, 5:47 PMDenver Election Reform ExaminerJan Tyler

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Here they go again.  Tova Wang's research has been discredited by fellow Democrat and Election Assistance Commissioner Gracia Hillman. Common Cause is lost in a maze of partisan advocacy.  Repeating themselves and running in circles.

According to Commissioner Hillman, the consultants' conclusions could not be easily corroborated by supporting data....In her opinion, data was imited in some areas and did not necessarily support the conclusions well.

 Apparently it didn't take, since once again Ms. Wang has written a speculative report on imaginary problems on November 4th.

...across the country voters arrived at the polls to find they were not on the registration list.

No they did not. In fact, in spite of predictions by the New York Times that tens of thousands of voters would be disenfrachised by routine voter list maintenance, there were few reports. Ms. Wang does not document this statement. She perpetuates the myth promoted by voting rights activists that routine voter list purging disenfrachises large numbers of eligible voters.

Federal law should require that all precincts have stocked and utilize emergency paper ballots whenever anyvoting machine in a polling site goes down

Like many activists, who have no practical experience administrating elections, Ms. Wang forgets that duplicating is usually not considered a best practice. Provisional ballots are the legal way to handle emergency voting.  Paper ballots are a step backwards, wasteful and inefficient.  An irony is that most paper ballot advocates also consider themselves green.

How green is wasting millions of paper ballots in every election?

 This year we once again saw the insidious types of deceptive practices that are designed to suppress voting – misinformation campaigns meant to mislead and confuse voters about whether they can vote and how, when and where to vote.

Not! Voter suppression exists in the imagination of Ms. Wang and her merry band of voting rights' activists.  Vote caging, the imaginary bogeyman, is a strategy of using insufficient addressee cards returned by the post office to challenge voter eligibilty en masse. When discussing vote caging, Ms. Wang fails to note most strategies were never executed. Vote caging mostly exists in the imagination of the perpetrators and voting rights activists.

 Ms. Wang's activism is noble. Her kind of  kind of reporting is healthy. What is  not healthy is the utter lack of transparency and accountability. When Common Cause claims to be nonpartisan, and claims to hold power acccountable, they are lying. Exaggerating claims of disenfrachised voters and deceptive practices, while dismissing ACORN's fraudulent activities, tells one side of the story.

I'm holding Common Cause accountable. They are the power now. Tell the other side of the story.

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