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Subject: US Congress - Hearing on Voting Technology & Standards
Yesterday, 22 May 2001, the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives of the US Congress held a hearing entitled, "Improving Voting Technology: The Role of Standards". The four panelists who testified were ... - Dr. Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. - Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Mercuri's doctoral dissertation is entitled "Electronic Vote Tabulation Checks & Balances". - Mr. Roy Saltman, Consultant on Election Policy and Technology. Mr. Saltman is perhaps best known as the author of the August 1988 report on voting technology which foresaw, by 12 years, the problems that happened in the Florida 2000 election. - Dr. Douglas Jones, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa and a member of the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines. For those interested, links to the archived webcast and written testimony from the hearing are listed out below. The panelists first read their written testimony, then most of the hearing involved members of Congress asking the panelists questions related to voting, technology, & standards. Unfortunately, only the panelists' written testimony is available in text form. The entire Q&A dialog appears to only be accessible by listening to the 2 hour, 21 minute archived webcast. I did listen to the entire webcast. For those of us already familiar with the current state of voting technology, no new information was presented. I found the dialog to be interesting, nonetheless. --------------- Committee on Science web site http://www.house.gov/science/full/fchearings.htm Archived Webcast of the Hearing - total length: 2 hours, 21 minutes - requires Real Media Player, Basic edition - available for free from http://www.real.com/player/ - there is "dead space" at the beginning of the webcast, fast forward to 04:24.0 to begin the hearing. http://www.house.gov/science/full/may22/fc052201.ram Dr. Ansolabehere - Written Testimony http://www.house.gov/science/full/may22/ansol.htm Dr. Ansolabehere - Web Site http://web.mit.edu/polisci/www/faculty/S.Ansolabehere.html Dr. Mercuri - Written Testimony http://www.house.gov/science/full/may22/mercuri.htm Dr. Mercuri - Web Site http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/notable/evote.html Mr. Saltman - Written Testimony http://www.house.gov/science/full/may22/saltman.htm Mr. Saltman - 1988 Report on Voting Technology http://www.itl.nist.gov/lab/specpubs/500-158.htm Dr. Jones - Written Testimony http://www.house.gov/science/full/may22/jones.htm Dr. Jones - Web Site http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/ --------------- - Thom
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