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StateVote 2012:   What Voters Decided      
Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 
1 p.m. ET/ Noon CT/ 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT

What did voters decide in Tuesday’s historic election? From the office of the president to state legislative races to ballot issues, we offer in-depth analysis on the 2012 elections.


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Panelists:

Jennie Drage Bowser is a senior fellow in the Legislative Management Program at NCSL, where she directs election programs, focusing on elections administration, initiative and referendum, campaign finance reform, and term limits.  She’s authored numerous magazine articles and staffed NCSL's Initiative & Referendum Reform and Elections Reform Task Forces.  She speaks frequently to legislatures and other groups, and is a trusted source for the media. Before coming to NCSL, she taught English as a second language at the Universities of Colorado and Kansas, and worked for Leadership Center of the Americas, which provides leadership and democratic skills training for Latin American and Caribbean college students.  She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American studies and a master's degree in linguistics, both from the University of Kansas.

Tim Storey is the director of legislative leaders services and legislator training at NCSL.  For the last two decades, he has specialized in elections, redistricting, and legislative organization and management.  Tim staffed NCSL's Redistricting and Elections Committee, authoring numerous articles and papers on the topics of redistricting and elections and directing NCSL's StateVote program. Born and raised in western North Carolina, he attended Mars Hill College and received his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Colorado. Prior to coming to NCSL, he worked in the news department at WLOS-TV in Asheville, North Carolina as a reporter/photographer, and interned as an assistant to the House Appropriations Chair with the North Carolina House of Representatives for the long session of 1987.

Moderator:

Gene Rose is executive vice president of the strategic communications firm Marmillion + Company, where he assists clients with his experience as a national media director, video producer, speechwriter and journalist. He began his career as a reporter for newspapers in Michigan and Missouri. Following that, he spent nearly 15 years with the Missouri House of Representatives, where he led the legislative chamber’s public information activities. He later directed the National Conference of State Legislatures Communications Division. Members of the National Association of Government Communicators elected Rose to a two-year term as president in 2006. He’s been recognized for writing, video, speech writing and video awards by the National Newspaper Association, the Missouri Press Association, the National Association of Government Communicators and the Telly Awards.

Resources:

NCSL's Elections Home Page

NCSL's Ballot Measures Database

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