Daily Briefing - Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Wendy R. Weiser directs the Brennan Center for Justice's work on voting rights and elections. During the last few election cycles, she masterminded litigation and advocacy efforts that kept hundreds of thousands of voters from being disenfranchised. She has authored a number of reports and papers on election reform; litigated ground-breaking voting rights lawsuits; and provided policy and legislative drafting assistance to federal and state legislators and administrators across the country.

Trudy Schafer is the Senior Program Director of the League of Women Voters of California and the LWVC Education Fund. A League member since 1978, Schafer served as president of the Sacramento League and was legislation director on the League's state board of directors. She works on a broad spectrum of projects both in citizen education and in ballot initiatives regarding redistricting, campaign finance, and budget reform measures.

Robert D. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He was recently the Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and is a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He has written thirteen books including Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary, and Warrior Politics. His new book is MONSOON: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.