JANUARY- Call for Papers! 2007 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop to be held on August 6, 2007 in Boston, MA. The event is sponsored by USENIX and ACCURATE, co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium. More details on event website.
- Project Manager needed for VTP at MIT. View job description
- Michael Alvarez and Erik Antonsson to present at National Academies of Engineering Symposium, The Impact of Technology on Voting and Elections in the 21st Century on February 8, Irvine, CA. View agenda.
- T Selker: "Pesky 'undervotes' raise concerns in Dade" - Miami Herald
- M Alvarez: "Union speech could make or break Bush" - Whittier Daily News
- R Rivest: "It is Not Whether Or Not To Audit Elections, But HOW!" - OpEdNews.com
- M Alvarez: "Electing one clerk not the answer" - Denver Post: OpEd, Jan Tyler
- R Rivest: "Panel Shifts Direction on E-voting Audit Trail" - Computerworld.com
- Jan 11-16: IACREOT Mid-Winter Meeting (Charlotte, NC)
- Jan 16: 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Election and Ethics Reform in the States, hosted by Kent State University, OH
Conference Schedule - Jan 22-23: Public Meeting: EAC Board of Advisors, Sunshine Act Notice
FEBRUARY
- Michael Alvarez & Erik Antonsson presentation from the National Academy of Engineering 2007 National Meeting Symposium on Electronic Voting, Irvine, CA, Feb 8, 2007
- Call for Papers! 2007 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop to be held on August 6, 2007 in Boston, MA. The event is sponsored by USENIX and ACCURATE, co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium.
Submissions are due April 22, 2007
Notification of acceptance will be Friday June 1, 2007
Final files are due Thursday June 28, 2007.
Program Chairs are Ray Martinez and David Wagner
More details on event website. - 2.21 Estonia to hold first national internet election--and we'll be there! Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall will travel to Estonia to observe internet voting in parlimentary elections on March 4, 2007. [pdf]
- 2.16 Talk at MIT Media Lab: "AttackDog - A Thread Modeling Tool for Security Research and Analysis on Voting Technology and Other Vulnerable Systems", lecture @ 4-5pm EST, working session @ 5-6pm EST, in de Rothchild room, E-15 283A. More details.
- Feb 8: EAC Public Meeting, 10am -1pm, Washington, DC
EAC Tentative public meeting schedule - Feb 9-12: NASED / NASS Winter Conference (Washington, DC)
Conference Agenda
Feb 14-18: Election Center Special Workshop: Election Training (Savannah, GA)
Election Center events schedule
MARCH- Demos IOWA EDR report by M Alvarez and J Nagler .
- 3.21: The report from the Oct '06 VTP Conference on Voter Registration & Authentication is complete! View the report.
- 3.15: Ted Selker testifies at the HR811 Sales Hearings before the House Administration Committee on Electronic Voting. Details to come. Ted is a witness for the disabled access panel.
- 3.13: VTP hosted a Voting System Vendors Workshop. Visit the event webpage.
- Estonia held first national internet election--and we were there! Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall travelled to Estonia to observe internet voting in parlimentary elections on March 4, 2007. Details and reports to follow.
- 3.3-4: NACRC 2007 Legislative Conference (Washington, DC)
APRIL- 4.22: "On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit", Ron Rivest, Raluca Popa, Javed Aslam
- Published: “How Hard Can It Be: Do Citizens Think It Is Difficult To Register To Vote?” Michael Alvarez, Thad Hall, Morgan, Llewellyn Stanford Law & Policy Review. Vol. 18, No. 349 (2007).
- Enhanced Election Day Survey, Paul Gronke, The Early Voting Information Center at Reed College
- 4.26: Paper forthcoming in Fordham Law Review: "Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem," Michael Alvarez & Thad Hall
MAY- Call for Papers: American Politics Research has issued a call for research submissions on election reform, voting methods and technology. For details, see Election Updates Blog entry.
- Paper forthcoming: "Bridging Science, Technology, and Politics in Election Systems," Michael Alvarez & Erik Antonsson; National Academies of Science
JUNE- VTP On the Road: Summer '07 will be a busy time for VTP. Team members will be attending the following events:
:: June: WOTE '07 [R Rivest] , Pacific NW Elections Conference [M Slemin, S Wood]
:: July: Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting, [Penn State M Alvarez, J Katz], IACREOT [T Selker, R Rivest], Frontiers of Electronic Voting [M Alvarez, R Rivest, T Selker]
:: August: USENIX/ACCURATE E-Voting Technology Workshop [R Rivest] - Call for Papers: American Politics Research has issued a call for research submissions on election reform, voting methods and technology. For details, see Election Updates Blog entry.
- 20-21: WOTE '07: IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, University of Ottawa, Canada
- 26-29: Melissa Slemin and Sarah Wood attended Pacific Northwest Elections Conference, Portland, OR
JULY- 7.16: "Uncle Sam Wants You: To Build a Better Voting Machine" -- Wired
- 7.13: "Modern protest requires a paw and ink pad" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- 7.17: Congratulations to Ron Rivest on winning the Marconi Prize.
- VTP On the Road: Summer '07 will be a busy time for VTP. Team members will be attending the following events:
:: 7.16-18: VoComp [R Rivest]
:: 7.19-21: Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting [M Alvarez, J Katz]
:: 7.17-21: IACREOT [T Selker, R Rivest]
::7.29--8.3: Frontiers of Electronic Voting [M Alvarez, R Rivest]
:: 8.6-10: USENIX/ACCURATE E-Voting Technology Workshop [R Rivest] - 7.27:: CA Secretary of State Top to Bottom Review of Voting Systems
- Alvarez/Antonsson NAE Bridge paper published. More at Election Updates
AUGUST - 8.7:: "Same Day Voter Registration in North Carolina" (Demos Briefing Paper), by Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler
- 8.10:: Photos and report from Delia's and Melissa's pollworking.
- 8.11: "State Voting Systems Under Scrutiny" -- Galveston County Daily News
- 8.13:: The report from the March Vendor Workshop is complete. Read it here.
- 8.22:: Report Release: The New Mexico Election Administration Report: The 2006 November General Election
News coverage: SantaFeNewMexican.com , UNM Today
Albuquerque Tribune (AP)
Statement from NM Governor Bill Richardson - 8.23::
- Recommendations, Follow-Ups & News: The American Bar Association's Commission on Law & Aging symposium, "Facilitating Voting as People Age: The Implications of Dimentia" (March 07)
News Reports: Podcast , NYTimes, The Providence Journal, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
- Recommendations, Follow-Ups & News: The American Bar Association's Commission on Law & Aging symposium, "Facilitating Voting as People Age: The Implications of Dimentia" (March 07)
- 8.24: "Election Technology Council: Recent Polling Confirms Voter Confidence Remains Steady" -- Business Wire (release)
- 8.29-9.1:: VTP presentations at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago
- Michael Alvarez & Delia Bailey, "Modeling Latino Voter Turnout in the 2000 and 2004 Elections"
- Jonathan Katz & Delia Bailey, "The Effect of Voter Identification Requirements on Turnout"
- Thad Hall, "Poll Workers and Voter Confidence in Election Outcomes"
- Michael Alvarez & Delia Bailey, "Modeling Latino Voter Turnout in the 2000 and 2004 Elections"
- 8.30:: Council of Europe Report on Internet Voting in the 2007 Estonian National Elections Released, Michael Alvarez & Thad Hall collaborators
SEPTEMBER
- 9.10: "Maryland: Governor O'Malley Pledges to 'Do Everything in My Power' to Fund Paper Ballots Bill" - VoteTrustUSA.org
- 9.12:: Abstracts, Michael Alvarez's attendance at the Schloss Dagstuhl "Frontiers of Electronic Voting" Seminar in Germany:
- "Internet Voting in Estonia" by Alvarez, Thad Hall and Alex Trechsel
- "Using Incident Reports to Detect Election Anomolies and Irregularities" by Alvarez, Hall, Jonathan Katz, & Rod Kiewiet
- 9.24: "Area flexing new political muscles" - Whittier Daily News
OCTOBER
- 10.23: New Poll Shows Maryland Voters Favor Funding a Switch to Paper Ballots by More Than 2 to 1 - VoteTrust.org
- 10.18: "Schiff Stands Firm" - Whittier Daily News
NOVEMBER
- Working Paper:: "The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (v.2)," by Alvarez, Katz & Bailey.
- Working Paper:: "Access Versus Integrity in Voter Identification Requirements," S. Ansolabehere (Feb '07)
- New Webpage, Indiana Voter ID Supreme Court Case: The webpage will contain documents, links and news stories about the court case as it unfolds
