From the department of fair and transparent governing:
Political activist Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg today expanded his fight for public access to electronic returns on election night. On
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, Urevick-Ackelsberg has been chronicling his campaign to get a password for the password-protected site internet where returns are posted on election night.
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earlier this month.
Currently media outlets pay to access returns on the website. The thee city commissioners -- who are in charge of elections -- also provide free passwords to political heavyweights and the well-connected. The general public pretty much has to go look at returns on paper.
After appealing to the city solicitor, Urevick-Ackelsberg was finally granted a password last week.
But he's not stopping there. Now he wants everyone to have the same access. So Urevick-Ackelsberg has teamed up with
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to launch a campaign to get as many people as possible to
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. His hope is that if the Commissioners are flooded with requests, they may just make the site publicly available.
According to a ticker on Hallwatch, there have been at least 176 letters so far...