There is an upcoming event on election integrity which I thought might be of interest to liberationtech: --------------------------- Election Integrity: Past, Present and Future Hosted by The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Saturday, October 1, 2011: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 32-123, Stata Center at MIT, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA Info: http://vote.caltech.edu/drupal/node/389 Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2127905623 This conference will present an overview of the various and vital elements of election integrity. Speakers will look back at the 35-year period that led to the November 2000 presidential election, examine the progress made since then, and look at the decade ahead. Three panel presentations: PAST: Moderator, Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist at SRI International, moderator of the ACM Risks Forum - Eva Waskell and Kurt Hyde, Co-chairs of The First National Symposium on Security and Reliability of Computers in the Electoral Process held in Boston in 1986 - Roy G. Saltman, Researcher and author - Douglas Kellner, Co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections - William Gardner, New Hampshire Secretary of State PRESENT: Moderator, Pam Fessler, National Public Radio - Pamela Smith, President, Verified Voting - Dan Wallach, Associate Professor, Rice University, Department of Computer Science - Ian Piper, Dominion Voting Systems Corporation - Carolyn Crnich, Clerk/Recorder & Registrar of Voters, Humboldt County, Eureka, California FUTURE: Moderator, To Be Announced - Philip Stark, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley - Luther Weeks, Executive Director of CTVotersCount.org and Connecticut Citizen Election Audit Coalition - Ronald Rivest, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT - Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County Clerk, Austin, Texas MIT Professor Ronald Rivest will moderate a wrap-up session. Admission is free, with pre-registration required. There will be a Q&A period following each panel. For questions, contact eippf2011@lists.csail.mit.edu _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE