Welcome to SiliconValley.com's Roundtable discussions. Here's a list of the panelists who've agreed to participate in
the event. We're still working on Diebold and Sequoia.
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Elise Ackerman is a metro reporter at The San Jose Mercury News where
she covers electonic voting issues.
David Dill is a professor of computer science and, by courtesy,
electrical engineering at Stanford University. His primary research interests
relate to the theory and application of formal verification techniques
to system designs, including hardware, protocols, and software. David
served on California Sec. of State Kevin Shelley's e-voting task force.
Jim Dickson is vice president of governmental affairs for the American
Association of People With Disabilities. He leads the AAPD Disability
Vote Project, a coalition of 36 national organizations aimed at
increasing political participation by people with disabilities. The project
focuses on election reform, polling place access, voter registration and
education and get-out-the-vote drives. He also co-chairs the Help
America Vote Act Task force of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Dan Gillmor is an author and technology columnist for the San Jose
Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. He also maintains a Web log
on SiliconValley.com. His column runs in many other U.S. newspapers,
and he appears regularly on radio and television. He has been
consistently listed by industry publications as among the most influential
journalists in his field.
David Jefferson has been conducting research at the intersection of
computers, the Internet, and public elections for over a decade. He was
recently appointed to chair the California Secretary of State's
Technical Oversight Committee to provide technical advice on the security and
reliability of voting systems. In early 2004, he was a co-author with
Avi Rubin, Barbara Simons and David Wagner of "A Security Analysis of
the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)"
(
http://www.servesecurityreport.org), which was a strong critique of the
Internet voting system proposed by the Department of Defense. Earlier,
in the spring of 2003 he was a member of the California Secretary of
State's Task Force on Touchscreen Voting, whose report eventually led to
the requirement for a voter-verified paper trail in California. Between
1999 and 2001 he served as chair of the technical committee of the
California Secretary of State's Task Force on Internet Voting, which
published the first major study of the subject. In his day job, David is a
computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he
does research in scalable parallel operating systems and simulation.
Scott Konopasek has been registrar of voters for San Bernardino County
since January 2003. He has led the county through the acquisition and
implementation of two new voting technologies to replace a punch-card
system. As registrar, Scott is responsible for administering elections
for the largest geographic election jurisdiction in the continental
United States (21,000 square miles), with 650,000 registered voters.
Scott Ritchie is a founder of the Open Vote Foundation, an open-source
effort to develop free software for Direct Recording Electronic voting
machines. Based on the Australian System, where source code is freely
published for public review, the Open Vote Project's initial goals are
to make a touchscreen voting system fully compatible with California
election law, including a voter verifiable receipt and easy access for the
disabled.
Dr. Avi Rubin is professor of Computer Science and technical director
of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He
is co-author of a report that showed security flaws in a widely used
electronic voting system and focused a national spotlight on the issue.
Rubin also co-authored an analysis of the government's planned SERVE
system for Internet voting for military and overseas civilians, which led
to the cancellation of the project.
Ted Selker is an associate professor at MIT's Media and Arts Technology
Laboratory, and director of its Context Aware Computing Lab.
Previously, Ted worked at IBM's Almaden Research Center, where he became an IBM
Fellow in 1996. He has served as a consulting professor at Stanford
University, taught at Hampshire College, the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, and at Brown University, and worked at Xerox PARC and Atari
Research Lab. He is a founding member of the Caltech/MIT Voting
Technologies Project.
Andy Stephenson is associate director of BlackBoxVoting.org, a voting
rights activist organization working for clean, fair, verifiable
elections.
Stephen Trout currently serves as the assistant registrar of voters in
San Bernardino County, Calif. Before taking that job, he served as the
senior elections counsel for the California Secretary of State from
2000-2003. While at the Secretary of State's office, he served as a
member of the Voting Systems Panel, which reviews and approves all voting
systems certified for use in California.
Mischelle Townsend has worked for 34 years in the public sector, nearly
seven of them as registrar of voters for Riverside County, Calif.
Kim Zetter is a senior reporter at Wired News who has led that
publication's coverage of electronic voting issues
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