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The panel The Future of Voting Technology: Towards “Critical Democracy Infrastructure?” will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 20th, in Hemisphere B.

Contents 1 Description 2 Speakers 3 Video 4 Notes and resources 4.1 From Aaron 4.2 From Joseph 4.3 From Lowell 4.4 From Nick 4.5 From Debra 4.6 From Norman 4.7 General/from discussion 5 Discussion 6 Panel feedback

Description

The cornerstone of democracy is fair and trustworthy public elections, and in a digital age, the substance of that cornerstone is technology. However, the free market effort of privatizing our election technology has largely failed. This panel explores 3 questions: [1] Toward the goal of trustworthy elections, are we best served by making all specifications for America's elections technology "open source?" [2] Should a standardized set of voting technology blueprints be maintained in a "public trust" and compelled for any vendor to license in deploying commercial voting solutions? [3] Should this effort rise to the level (and visibility) of "critical democracy infrastructure?"

Speakers

• Aaron J. Burstein - Research Fellow UC Berkeley School of Information

• Joseph Lorenzo Hall - Joseph Lorenzo Hall recently graduated with his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information working under information law professors Pamela Samuelson and Deirdre Mulligan. Hall started a postdoctoral research position at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University this past Fall. Hall's academic focus is on mechanisms that promote transparency, as core functions of our government become digital. His Ph.D. thesis used electronic voting as a critical case study in digital transparency. Mr. Hall holds master's degrees in astrophysics and information systems from UC Berkeley and is a founding member of the National Science Foundation CyberTrust ACCURATE Center (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections). He served as a voting technology, policy and law analyst on the teams that conducted the California Secretary of State's Top-To-Bottom Review of voting systems and Project EVEREST, Ohio's review of its voting systems.

• Lowell Finley - Deputy State Secretary of California

• Nick Handy - State of Washington Director of Elections

• Hon. Debra Bowen - California's 30th Secretary of State. A pioneer in open government reform, election integrity, and personal privacy rights, Debra Bowen became only the sixth woman in California history elected to a statewide constitutional office when she was elected as Secretary of State in November 2006.

• Norman J. Ornstein - American Enterprise Institute

Video

Video from recorded panels will be posted here after the conference.

We still need a volunteer to record this panel. (Set up a tripod; hit "record" - panelists, you can do this, too!) Email Lynn Stinson to volunteer. (Other panels needing volunteers to record video.)

In the meantime, here's video from last year's conference:

Notes and resources

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From Aaron

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Discussion

Panel feedback

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