TE! Talks with Susan Lerner about Election Protection and Voters Rights

Episode 7 - TE! Talks with Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/New York about Election Protection and Voters Rights.

Do you know your Voters Bill of Rights? Do you know what Clean Elections are? Where do you report polling place concerns? How do you find out about candidates outside of their commercial advertisements? With a election day just a few weeks away, this is a not to be missed episode of TE! Talks.

A graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU School of Law, Susan Lerner is the executive director of Common Cause / New York. Prior to her recent return to New York, Susan was the executive director of the California Clean Money Campaign. She served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Commonwealth Club's Voices of Reform Project and on the Board of Trustees of the California State Summer School for the Arts. She founded and chaired the Committee for Judicial Independence, a grassroots organization dedicated to educating and activating Americans to the importance of an independent federal judiciary, and lead a statewide coalition of groups active on federal judicial nominations. For almost 20 years, Susan was a trial lawyer in LA specializing in complex commercial litigation and intellectual property.

Common Cause/New York is the citizen's lobbyist and we speak up for clean elections and ethical standards for our elected officials. Common Cause / New York is the New York Chapter of Common Cause a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.

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