WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s creation of an independent Presidential Commission on Election Administration to address voting problems has sparked debate among voting rights activists.
The commission, to be chaired by Bob Bauer, former general counsel for the Obama campaign, and Ben Ginsberg, former election lawyer for Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, is tasked with finding “common-sense, non-partisan solutions” to “reduce waiting times at the polls and improve all citizens’ voting experience,” the White House said Tuesday night.
The commission’s formation, announced by Obama during his State of the Union address, follows previous comments from the president about long lines at polls. He remarked during his November election victory speech, “By the way, we have to fix that.”
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