Douglas A. Kellner
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Douglas A. Kellner Kellner
Douglas A. Kellner, a co-chairman of the Board of Elections said that the Department of Justice has been telling us every day for the last three weeks that they're going to sue us tomorrow if we don't agree to the last version of the consent order. Mr. Kellner said the negotiations centered on the federal law's requirement that state voting systems be accessible to disabled voters. Mr. Kellner said that he does not understand the need for secrecy. Douglas A. Kellner, a co-chairman of the Board of Elections, said that the Department of Justice had been telling them every day for the last three weeks that they were going to sue them the next day if they didn't agree to the last version of the consent order. Mr. Kellner said that he does not understand the need for secrecy, and that even if the state and the federal government agree on a settlement, he will not vote on it until a week after a draft of the order has been released to the public. He further said that so if they wanted to take the position that all the negotiations had to go on behind closed doors, then they had to realize that it was going to be another week before they were going to get me to vote yes.