NEW YORK, NY -- October 26 -- Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action, a non-partisan public policy and research organization, has compiled an extensive briefing book that examines key factors affecting the integrity and fairness of the upcoming General Election.

The briefing kit can be found at www.demos-usa.org along with our up-to-the-minute news on the Demos Election Newswire and analysis of the day's events on the Democracy Dispatches Daily Round-up.

Demos and its Democracy Program have been at the center of national election reform activity since the 2000 election controversy. Over the last four years, Demos has issued a number of groundbreaking reports on long-standing obstacles to voter participation and has engaged in on-the-ground and policy-level efforts to increase voter registration nationwide.

"Democracy at Risk" offers information on five issues central to the integrity of the 2004 election:

Provisional Voting: a Fix at Risk
Election Fraud
Felon Disenfranchisement
Purging of Voter Lists
National Voter Registration and the Registration of Low-Income Americans
Collectively, these problems pose serious questions about the continuing vitality of our democracy.

Demos has expert spokespeople available for briefings, interviews and media appearances. They include, among others:

Miles Rapoport, President of Demos and former Secretary of the State of Connecticut
Steven Carbo, Director, Democracy Program
Ari Weisbard, Analyst, Democracy Program

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