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Statement of Purpose

The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is incorporated as a not-for-profit, non-partisan civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies and to ensuring fair, accurate, and completely transparent elections.

Fundamental to election integrity is the inscribing of all votes (whether by hand or by machine) on durable paper ballots which are easily handled and verified by the individual voter. The voter’s paper ballot shall be the only official ballot for purposes of casting, tallying, counting, audit and recount.

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is to inform and educate the public, media and government officials about important election-integrity issues and to promote the adoption of legislation and policies designed to secure the democratic process.

The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is organized as a not-for-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Illinois.

Membership in the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is open to any United States citizen.

Here are the minutes of previous meetings of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project :

January 10, 2007
November 15, 2006
September 13, 2006
April 12, 2006
February 8, 2006
January 11, 2006
December 7, 2005 (Not available)
November 9, 2005
October 12, 2005 (Not available)
September 14, 2005 (Not available)
August 10, 2005 (Not available)
July 13, 2005
June 8, 2005
May 11, 2005 (Not available)
April 13, 2005
March 9, 2005
February 9, 2005 (Not available)
January 12, 2005 (Not available)
December 8, 2004 (Not available)
November 10, 2004 (Not available)
October, 2004 (No Meeting)
September 8, 2004 (No meeting)
August 11, 2004
July, 2004 (No Meeting)
June 9, 2004
May, 2004 (No Meeting)
April 14, 2004
March 10, 2004
February 11, 2004
January 14, 2004
December 10, 2003
November 12, 2003

Policy and financial decisions of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project are vested in its Officers and Board of Directors which consists of the following individuals:

Chair
Melisa Urda urda@ballot-integrity.org

Vice-Chair
Clare Tobin tobin@ballot-integrity.org

Secretary
Roy Lipscomb lipscomb@ballot-integrity.org

Treasurer
Roy Lipscomb lipscomb@ballot-integrity.org

Director
Beverley Walter walter@ballot-integrity.org

The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, Inc. is organized under the laws of the State of Illinois as a not-for-profit corporation. Official corporate business of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, Inc. is conducted by the organization's seven-person Board of Directors listed above, in accordance with the provisions of IBIP's ByLaws .

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