November 28-29, 2005
Hyatt Regency
Sacramento, CA
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson hosted a Voting Systems Testing Summit on November 28 and 29 to bring together experts from state and federal elections administration to discuss testing as it applies to state certification processes for voting equipment. Several panels of nationally recognized experts will share their expertise, from which we hope to develop a best practices model that all states can use in their examination of voting equipment. Please see the agenda and remarks linked to this page for additional information.
Caren Daniels-Meade, Chief of Elections, State of California
Materials and Presentations
Session 1 - The Federal Role - Where Things Stand Today and Where They're Headed, HAVA and Voting Systems, Accessibility
Session 2 - Demystifying the ITA's
Session 2.5 - A Vision for Testing Election Systems
Session 3 - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Session 4 - State Panel on What Happens Now
Session 5 - Designing the Best Tests
Keynote Speaker - Evaluating the Usability of Six Voting Systems and Voters' Abilities to Cast Their Ballots As Intended
Session 6 - Security/Paper Trails/Accountability
- Kim Alexander, President and Founder, California Voter Foundation (ppt ~196KB)
- Michael Alvarez, CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project (ppt ~1.77MB)
- Dr. Henry Brady, Director, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley (ppt ~382KB)
- Professor David L. Dill, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University*
- Dr. Aviel (Avi) D. Rubin, Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University*
- Dr. Michael Shamos, Co-Director, Institute for eCommerce and Director, Center for Privacy Technology, Carnegie Mellon University (PA) (ppt ~108KB)
Session 7 - Vendors
Session 8 - Best State Practices
- David Chapin, Director, electionline.org*
- Jim Dolbear, Director of the Voting Systems Institute (ppt ~109KB)
- Dr. David Jefferson, California Voting Systems Technical Assessment and Advisory Board Chair*
- Tom Wilkey, Executive Director, Election Assistance Commission*
* Electronic copies of materials were not provided.
