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John Bonifaz...
- Founded the National Voting Rights Institute in 1994 and has led it since then
- Was the lead counsel for the Cobb/Badnarik suit to count the votes in Ohio after the 2004 election
- Co-founded the After Downing Street Coalition
- Sued the Bush administration to prevent the invasion of Iraq, and wrote the book Warrior King about it
- Successfully fought the Massachusetts legislature in court when they tried to block a voter-approved clean elections law, and won spectacularly
- Received a MacArthur Foundation grant, aka "genius award", for his innovative legal work on campaign finance reform
We've got several more videos of John Bonifaz up on YouTube that I hope you'll watch, including...
- His speeech at the 2006 Massachusetts Democratic State Convention
- The video we showed at the convention
- A montage of 3 clips of Bonifaz answering questions - He talks about the problem with computer voting machines, the need for paper ballots, setting uniform standards for recounts, how to show leadership from the secretary of stat's office, some good secretaries in other states, and things he wants to enact like election day registration and a new clean elections law.
If you like what you see, please post about Bonifaz in your LJ!
