Christina Tobin to Speak at 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

Important information about the 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy from the Christina Tobin for California Secretary of State website. Free and Equal Elections Foundation is one of the sponsors of this awesome event and we encourage everyone to check it out. The logo and link for this event is also at the top of this page, on the right.

SAN FRANCISCO – Christina Tobin, CEO and founder of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, will speak at the 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. The forum will be a five-day, July 30 to August 4, international event and will include the two-day U.S. Conference on Initiative and Referendum at the University of California Hastings College of Law. Most events will take place in the Louis B. Mayer Student Lounge at UC Hastings.

Tobin will participate in a panel titled, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Paid For and Counted: An Inside Look at the Process, from the Signatures to the Votes,” Saturday, July 31, beginning at 3:45 p.m. PT. The panel will also include Theresa Amato with Citizen Works, Rick Arnold with National Voter Outreach, Elaine Ginnold with the Marin County Registrar of Voters, and Gerald Haefner of the European Parliament. The panel will be moderated by Nicole Winger, Deputy Secretary of State in California.

Sunday, August 1, beginning at 4:45 p.m. PT, Tobin will speak to conference attendees about her involvement with election reforms across the country and the dangers of “Top Two” primaries, as well as her upcoming plans for Free and Equal Elections Foundation.

Other panel topics at the conference will include: “Is California’s Initiative Process Ruining the State, Or Saving It?”; “Big Money vs. Direct Democracy: Who Wins?”; “Do You Dream of Electronic Signatures?”; “On the Media: Initiative & Referendum in the Court of Public Opinion”; and “Starting Over: The Challenge of Writing a New Constitution with Direct Democracy.”

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