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Bradblog.com
January 12, 2006
Brad Friedman

Pacific Research Institute Carries Fresh Water for the Electronic Voting Machine Industry

Who is PRI? Are They the Latest Incarnation of the ACVR? And Just Who Do They Think They're Messing with by Attacking the Pro-Democracy Movement with Easily Discredited Info-ganda?

It looks like the Rightwing may have found a replacement for the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), the GOP front group set up to smokescreen against true election reform and transparent democracy...

...now, a West Coast "non-partisan" conservative think-tank called Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) may be stepping in to fill at least part of the void in the person of TechNews World columnist and PRI Director of Technology Studies, Sonia Arrison. Arrison has been op/ed'ing and releasing "white papers" lately rallying against voter-verified paper ballots for electronic voting machines. Her reasons for being against transparent democracy are both bizarre and seem freshly pulled out of her hind quarters (or out of those of Diebold's).

...Unfortunately, their side keeps the money flowing freely to prop up their nonsense, while our side is comprised mostly of true grass-roots citizens in the fight simply because it's the right thing to do..

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Pacific Research Institute

PRI calls the paper trail requirement one of California's top 10 policy blunders of 2005.

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