[EL] The $45M Hiest from NYC ATMs

[Candice Hoke]

Many -- though far from all-- of the Blog's election law scholars, journalists, lawyers and policymakers take it as a matter of ethics (if not legal compulsion) that those "research centers" and bloggers/commentators who are promoting and lobbying for particular legal policies or candidates disclose their financial contributors whose financial/business/electoral interests are implicated in the views they are promoting.  

—>  Applying that ethical principle here, Dr. Kelleher, has your Center, The Internet Voting Research and Education Fund, or yourself personally received financial support from any vendor or manufacturer of Internet voting systems, or from other entities having a financial interest in the  whether jurisdictions authorize Internet voting?  

This question includes funding from vendors/manufacturers who transmit monies via their philanthropic or nonprofit units.  

By my lights, there's nothing wrong with your Center/you seeking and using funding to support your advocacy and research work. Research requires financial support.   

But you owe the EL Blog and the larger public the information relevant to their judging the impartiality and objectivity of your presentations, outlined above.  If a PharmaGiant pays for apparently independent research that concludes its miracle drug works miracles, the public -- and doctors and the FDA—  have a need to know of that financial support.  Similarly here, as you said,  

> If elite and public opinion are to be well informed,


With thanks in advance for your elucidation.   




On May 14, 2013, at 3:55 PM, wjk <wjkellpro at aol.com> wrote:

> The following is my rebuttal to David Jefferson's critique of my comments on Internet voting security vs. the Internet connections exploited in the heist. 



Professor Candice Hoke
Law School
Cleveland State University
216 687-2313

shoke at law.csuohio.edu

Disclaimer:  Any opinions I may have expressed are my own and do not reflect the positions of any university, State or Federal institutions, boards, or committees with which I may be affiliated, although I may wish that they did.


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