4/12: LWVCNM Hosts Talk with Paul Stokes on Voting/Election Issues in the 2011 Legislature

From the League of Women Voters of Central NM: The LWVCNM will host its Evening Unit Meeting on April 12 at the Erna Ferguson Library located at 3700 San Mateo NE in Albuquerque from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. Paul Stokes, Coordinator of United Voters of New Mexico will discuss Voting/Election Issues in the 2011 Legislature. All are welcome to attend.

Paul Stokes spent most of his career at Sandia National Laboratories conducting research, development and analysis of technologies for arms control compliance verification and intelligence, and later at the International Atomic Energy Agency conducting nuclear inspection in Iraq, and at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization developing on-site inspection techniques.

He has been engaged in election integrity activities since the 2004 election, when he worked with national organizations to pursue a recount, followed by support for legal action to investigate the accuracy of voting machines. United Voters of New Mexico was formed to support these activities and to work with the New Mexico Legislature to advance election reform legislation.

Since that time, as coordinator for United Voters of New Mexico, Paul has continued to work with state election officials and the Legislature to bring the uniform use of paper ballots throughout the state, and risk-based audits to verify the accuracy of voting machines.

Stokes is the co-author of an op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal entitled Partisanship Voting's Biggest Threat.