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...past, the problem of a decline in voter participation has been examined mostly in piecemeal fashion," Kevin Gottlieb, Harvard's liason to ABC and the chief conference organizer, said yesterday. Gottlieb and others noted that the last major systematic review of voting procedures took place more than 20 years ago, before the onset of the drastic decline in turnout that reached a level of just more than half of eligible voters in the 1980 general elections...
...conference is expected to attract wide spread national attention, and will be taped and edited for a major documentary that ABC New plans to broadcast sometime next year, organizers said...
...current agreement calls for ABC to pay for and organize the meetings and for Harvard to coordinate the agenda and participants. Organizers would not disclose how much the conference would cost, but noted the extent of provisions being planned for the Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 event...
...list of participants, now being finalized includes current and past chairmen of the Democratic and Republican an National Committees; the heads of the Federal Communication Commission and the Federal Election Commission, president of the League of Women Voters top officials of ABC, CBS and NBC News several Congressional leaders from both parties leading political pollsters and scientists and prominent syndicated columnists including David Border and Elizabeth Drew...
Besides participating in at least one of the working sessions, President Bok will host one of the dinners along with Leonard Goldenson, chairman of the board of ABC, Inc. who reportedly holds great interest in the issue of electoral reform. Goldenson first met with K-School officials to discuss the conference during a visit and speech at Harvard last winter...