NOVA'S BOARD

Pearl Livingstone, President, has been registering voters and training registrars in Cuyahoga County since 2000. Heading a group of over 60 registrars, she has organized registration drives in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections at 12 Dave's Supermarkets, Cleveland High Schools, Cuyahoga County Public Assistance Agencies and Probation Departments. and Tower City. In the 2008 election cycle over 5000 registrations were sent in through her group.

Sara Wotman, Vice President, has registered voters in various venues during the last three Presidential election cycles, and has trained new registrars. She has done research on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections data base to determine categories of failed registrations and ways people may be "hidden" in the data base, and helped provide voters with information on registration and voting.

Saralee Luke, LLD, MSW, Secretary/Treasurer, has registered voters since 2004, and has assisted in research on voter registration fraud. She co-led a project to increase registration by a local public assistance agency.

Norman Robbins, MD, PhD, Research Director, has directed projects on registration and provisional ballot problems. He testified on election reform to Ohio House and Senate Committees, and to the U.S. House Administration Committee. He serves on the Ohio Secretary of State's Voting Rights Institute Advisory Council and also on their NVRA Leadership Team (to improve voter registration by public assistance agencies).

NOVA's Board of Directors consists of the four Officers listed above, and a fifth member, Ben Segall, PhD, an emeritus professor of physics. He has devoted approximately 10 years to increasing registrations of underrepresented citizens in NE Ohio. He has also studied and worked to improve the electoral process.