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White House: Obama Names Executives, Others to Panel on Elections

President Barack Obama will appoint executives from Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Deloitte LLP, as well as election compliance officers and others, to a panel he created to look into ways to reducing lines during elections.The White House on Tuesday said Mr. Obama would appoint Brian Britton, who oversees operations at Walt Disney World in Florida, and Deloitte Chief Executive Joe Echevarria to his Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He also plans on appointing to the panel Trey Grayson, director of the institute of politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Tammy Patrick, federal compliance officer for the Maricopa County Elections Department in Arizona, among others.In all, Mr. Obama is naming 10 people to the panel.The president announced his intent to create the panel in his State of the Union address, following an election where some people had to wait in line for hours to vote. Former Obama White House counsel Bob Bauer, and Ben Gin...

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