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Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
 




EVENTS ::VOTING SYSTEMS VENDOR WORKSHOP
MARCH 13, 2007
The goal of this small and informal workshop is to bring together key members of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, a few representatives of other academic research projects, and the voting technology industry, to engage in discussions identifying the important questions in voting technology, and to begin a process of building trust and collaboration.

AGENDA
Morning Session: 8:00 -- 11:30 am
  • VTP PIs and other academic researchers each identify and discuss their concerns/issues relating to current voting technology and how they see collaborations with vendors could improve elections, relating to:
    • Interoperability
    • Auditability
    • Reliability
    • Security: chain of custody, etc
    • Usability/Accessibility
    • Future Technologies: pollbooks, electronic databases
    • Making auditability useful
    • Technologies developed by VTP
  • 8:00 – 8:30 am
    • Introduction of Workshop and of all attendees, Ted Selker [MIT, VTP] & Michael Alvarez [Caltech, VTP]
  • 8:30 – 9:10 am: Voting Technology Research Methods
  • Richard Niemi [University of Rochester]
  • 9:10– 9:30 am: Early Voting
    • Paul Gronke [Reed College]: Early Voting and Voting Technology
  • 9:30 – 9:50 am: Accessibility/Usability
  • 10:10 – 10:50 am: Security
    • Ron Rivest [MIT, VTP]: Security of voting machines; prevoting
    • Ben Adida [Harvard University]: Upgrading to cryptographic auditing
    • David Wagner [University of California, Berkeley]: Trustworthy Voting Machines: techniques that can be used to improve the security, reliability, and transparency of voting machines and enhance our ability to gain confidence in them.
  • 10:50 – 11:30 am: Auditing & Forensics
    • Jonathan Katz [Caltech, VTP]: Recounts and Auditing
    • Rod Kiewiet [Caltech, VTP]: Incident Reports and Improving Election Administration

Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:30 pm

  • Vendors each identify their concerns/issues relating to current voting technology and what academics might do to be productive collaborators in improving the voting technology and ultimately the election process and/or specific research questions that they see as critical for the next 3-5 years (technology, implementation of technology, the policy regimes i.e. testing and certification)
  • 1:00 – 1:20 pm
    • Michelle Shafer, Ed Smith [Sequoia Voting Systems]: Open-Source Development and Disclosed  Source Code--Pros and Cons in Voting Systems
  • 1:20 – 1:40 pm
  • 1:40 – 2:00 pm
    • Chris Backert [eGovernment Consulting]: Remote voting technology: the need for a comparative analysis of remote voting channels and how the security and reliability of these channels might be improved. (handout)
  • 2:10 – 2:30 pm
    • David Chaum [Punchscan]: VSPR and Punchscan system
  • 2:30 - 2:50 pm
    • Ian Piper [Diebold]: Identification of specific issues/problems
  • 3:10 – 3:30 pm
    • Jamie Clark [OASIS]: Trusted Logic Voting Systmes with OASIS EML 4.0 (Election Markup Language)
  • 3:30 – 3:50 pm
  • 3:50 – 5:30 pm
    • Brainstorming Session, Ron Rivest, moderator
      -Identify most important problems in research agenda
      -How to structure research, direct collaborations, existing models
      -Those types of technologies vendors identified as effective/useful



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