Blogged by John Gideon, VotersUnite
In a just released letter [.pdf] dated July 5, the Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) Deputy General Counsel, Gavin Gilmour, wrote to Tova Wang’s attorney and clarified prior communications. Tova has now been un-gagged by the EAC and is free to speak about her Voter Fraud report that was commissioned and then hidden by the commission when it found the opposite of what they had hoped to find. As it turns out, the massive epidemic of voter fraud the Republicans had been claiming, didn’t actually exist. Who knew? (We did.)
Regular readers will recall that Tova Andrea Wang, a Democracy Fellow at the Century Foundation — co-author of the report that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) attempted to bury — had announced that the federal commission of Presidential appointees had refused to allow her to speak directly about her report and the action taken by the EAC to alter its findings and hide her original report from public view.
We reported on the following day that new EAC Commissioner, Rosemary Rodriguez, made a statement calling on her fellow commissioners to release Wang from the gag-order and allow her to talk about the report and the altering thereof.
Hopefully this long-overdue action by the EAC, releasing her to speak freely, will now lead to some revelations into why the EAC buried the Wang/Serebov report. Only time will tell. But we have a feeling there will be much more to come, now that Wang’s shackles have been removed…
We really need better whistle-blower laws, and more whistle-blowers will do what’s right. Like Wang. Need I say more?