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Building Trust & Confidence in Voting Systems, Dec 10-11, 2004
 

Dec 10, 2004

• Opening Remarks
  Arden L. Bement
  Director, NIST

Session 1 - Specification, Testability, Accreditation and Qualification in Voting Systems

• NIST's Role in Standards & Testing
  Mark Skall
  Chief, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division,  NIST
• History of the Voting System Standards Program
  Tom Wilkey
  National Association of State Election Directors, New York State
• P1583IEEE Voting System Standard
  Herb Deutsch
  IEEE/Election Systems and Software, Inc.
• Building Trust and Confidence: Why Trustworthy Voting Systems Require Institutionalized Distrust
  Doug Jones
  University of Iowa
• Software ITA Testing to the 2002 FEC Voting System Standards
  Carolyn Coggins
  SysTest Labs
• Conformance Testing  - An Industry Perspective
  Patrick Curran
  Sun Microsystems
   

Session 2 - Security and Openness in Voting Systems

• Security Issues in Voting Systems: A Panel Session
  Edward A. Roback
  Chief, Computer Security Division, NIST
• Georgia Voting System
  Brit Williams
  Kennesaw State University
• Openness & Security
  David Dill
  Stanford University
• Electronic Voting & Security
  Aviel Rubin
  Johns Hopkins University
• Confidence -- What it is and How to achieve it
  Jim Adler
  VoteHere, Inc.

Dec 11, 2004
Session 3 - Usability and Accessibility in Voting Systems

• Usability and Accessibility Panel
  Sharon Laskowski
  Manager, Visualization and Usability and Usability Group,  NIST
• Voter Verified Paper Ballot: De facto Discrimination Against Americans with Disabilities
  Jim Dickson
  American Association of People with Disabilities
• Is It Plugged In?
  Denise Lamb
  Director of Elections, State of New Mexico
• An Assessment of Voting Technology and Ballot Design
  Paul S. Herrnson
  University of Maryland
• Usability Testing in the Development Cycle
  Sanford Morganstein
  Populex Corporation
• Starting from People
  Whitney Quesenbery
  Usability Professionals Association
• Do Paper Trails Help? - CalTech/MIT Voting Project
  Ted Selker
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 4 - Next Steps

• Session 4 –Consensus Issues
  Susan F. Zevin
  Acting Director, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST
   

Conference Wrap-up

• Closing Remarks
  Arden Bement
  Director, NIST