Event: “A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections,” September 16 at the National Press Club.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Green Institute, the Liberty Tree Foundation, and Fairvote will sponsor a panel discussion on the future of U.S. democracy and elections, on Friday, September 16 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

“A Call to Protect and Democratize US Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections” will feature political and activist leaders who are experts in a variety of areas ranging from long-term barriers to access to new problems with technology, and the challengescaused by the structure of American elections.

The panel will provide the media with concise information on these problems and offer concrete solutions for restoring the promise of American democracy. The web page for the event is located at The Green Institute.

Confirmed participants include Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), 1980 independent presidential candidate John Anderson (who now heads Fairvote), Melanie Campbell of the Coalition for Black Civic Participation, and other confirmed and invited speakers.

MC’s own Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, will be speaking also.