Review Panel Linda Edgeworth has nearly 30 years of experience with all aspects of the electoral process, including planning, executing, and managing technical requirements; developing and implementing procedural changes; and coordinating outreach and training with government agencies and the general public. She has been involved with domestic elections in the United States, as well as in three dozen countries around the world in more than a decade as an IFES election administration specialist. María del Carmen Alanis Figueroa has served as the Magistrate-President of Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) since August 2007. She has more than two decades of public sector experience, working with the TEPJF, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), and earlier, the Federal Electoral Court. Since 2010, Ms. Alanis has been the Mexican Representative to the Venice Commission (European Commission of Democracy through Law), and is a highly regarded international expert in electoral law, systems management and administration, electoral justice, civic education, and Mexican electoral politics. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has served as an Organization of American States consultant on the management, analysis and design of electoral information databases. Barry H. Weinberg is the former Acting Chief of the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has consulted for IFES on numerous projects since the mid-1990s. Mr. Weinberg has extensive experience litigating voting disenfranchisement and discrimination cases, and he coordinated enforcement of the “Motor Voter” law. He is the author of The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles that Control Election Challenges, an IFES publication detailing election dispute resolution issues in U.S. law, currently in its second edition. xi

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