Address to the Cleveland Area LWV Town Hall Meeting on Election Law Reform

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Baldwin Wallace College November 10, 2008
by Professor Charles Burke

Citizens, neighbors, members of the faculty and staff and student body, voters good evening and welcome to Baldwin-Wallace College.

I’m Charlie Burke, Professor of Political Science and Chair of that Department here, and I’m happy to be able to introduce you to the program we are jointly sponsoring with the League of Women Voters of Ohio–which the League has entitled “Ensuring Honest, Fair, Transparent, and Efficient Elections. Do we have a problem? I invite your attention particularly to those adjectives: honest, fair, transparent, and efficient. My task here is simply to introduce the subject matter of our Town Meeting discussions, and get off stage–eight bars and off. Professors are notorious for speaking in public in fifty-minute chunks, but I’ll ask those of you students here to signal me if I’m running off at the mouth.

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