Lowell Finley was Mary Ann Gould's guest on CVI's new radio show, Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy, which premiered Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Click here for archived audio.

 

Lowell Finley, Esq., of Berkeley, CA, is Co-Director of Voter Action and legal counsel on Voter Action’s lawsuits in Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania, where several members of CVI are among the plaintiffs. Mr. Finley is considered this country's premier attorney on voting cases. He has practiced election law for over 20 years. Mr. Finley successfully sued Diebold Election Systems, Inc., in a California False Claims Act case that resulted in a $2.6 million settlement. Past cases include blocking newly elected California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from soliciting or using special interest campaign contributions to repay an illegal $4 million personal loan; representation of the California Assembly in redistricting cases before the California and United States Supreme Courts; winning ballot access for Chinese-American candidates in San Francisco and successfully suing an Orange County, California candidate for hiring uniformed security guards to intimidate Hispanic voters at the polls. Mr. Finley is a founding member and past president (1992) of the California Political Attorneys Association.