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Monitoring the Polls -- Locally and Globally

Listen Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 at 1:06 p.m. in Politics

With voter interest at an all-time high, election officials in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. are bracing for record turnout. Dozens of election officials from across the world will be in town to take notes and observe the nuts and bolts of the American voting process during the expected frenzy. From electronic voting machines to rules prohibiting political t-shirts in polling places, we get international and local perspectives on election day.

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Guests

Mike DeBonis

"Loose Lips" Columnist, Washington City Paper

Rokey W. Suleman

General Registrar, Office of Elections, Fairfax County (VA)

Kim Keenan

Incoming head of the DC Bar Association. Representative of the Election Protection Coalition, an umbrella group monitoring polling across the country

Stephanie Kaye

Reporter, WAMU 88.5

Jamie Dettmer

Director of Communications, IFES

Johann Kriegler

Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2003); member, Independent Review Commission on Post-Election violence in Kenya

Carlos Valenzuela

United Nations Chief Technical Adviser, National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (2006-2007); United Nations Chief Electoral Officer, Liberia (1997), East Timor (2000-2002), Palestine (2002-2004) and Iraq (2004-2005)

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