Election Integrity – Past, Present & Future
Theme: Establishing common ground and building bridges among stakeholders
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stata Center, Kirsh Auditorium, Room 32-123, 32 Vassar St., Building 32, Cambridge, MA
Sponsor: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011
Admission: Free. Donations accepted.
Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2127905623
For questions, contact: eippf2011@lists.csail.mit.edu
This event is to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the First National Symposium on
Security and Reliability of Computers in the Electoral Process, held in Boston, Massachusetts
in 1986. This event was co-chaired by Eva Waskell and Kurt Hyde.
Coffee and donuts:
8:00 - 8:45 AM
Introduction by Caltech/MIT convener:
The Past :
8:45 AM
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Moderator: Dr. Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Panelists:
Kurt Hyde, Corinth, Texas; database administrator; retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel; former
systems analysis instructor, Rivier College, New Hampshire
Eva Waskell, San Rafael, California; former director of the Elections Project for the Washington DC
Chapter of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; member of Board of Advisors for the former
Election Science Institute; former computer programmer
Roy G. Saltman, author of 1976 and 1988 reports for National Institute of Standards and Technology;
author of “The History and Politics of Voting Technology” in 2006.
Douglas A. Kellner, Co-chair, New York State Board of Elections
William M. Gardner, New Hampshire Secretary of State, presenter at 1986 Symposium
Break:
The Present
10:30 – 11:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Moderator: Pam Fessler, correspondent, National Public Radio’s Washington Desk
Panelists:
Pamela Smith, President of Verified Voting.org
Dan Wallach, Houston, Texas; Associate Professor in the systems group at Rice University's Department
of Computer Science and manager of Rice's computer security lab; member, California Secretary of State’s
Top-to-Bottom Review in 2007
Ian S. Piper, Director, Certification, Dominion Voting Systems Corporation
Caroline Crnich, Humboldt County Clerk/Recorder/Registrar of Voters, Eureka, California
Lunch (on your own)
The Future
12:30 – 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Moderator: To be announced
Panelists:
Philip B. Stark, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Luther Weeks, Executive Director of CTVotersCount.org and Connecticut Citizen Election Audit
Coalition; retired computer scientist and software engineer
Ronald L. Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former Chair, Subcommittee on Security and Transparency,
Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission
Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County Clerk, Austin, Texas; member Standards Board of the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission
Break:
3:30 - 4:00 PM
Wrap up/Next Steps/Lessons Learned (Caltech/MIT):
Moderator/Facilitator: Professor Ronald L. Rivest, MIT
4:00 – 5:00 PM