future of voting technologies
"Voting in an e-Democracy," a symposium on voting and voting technologies, will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, April 2, in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
The event is sponsored jointly by the Yale Faculty of Engineeering and the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs.
Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz will present opening remarks for the program, which will include talks on the subjects of electronic and internet voting. The final hour of the program will be a presentation of the final competition of the Yale Undergraduate Debates on Technology and Society, "Voting in an e-Democracy."
The speakers and their topics will be Charles Stewart, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Long Strange Trip of Election Reform: Why 2004 Will Be Much Different Than 2000"; Eric A. Fischer, senior specialist in science and technology at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, "The Federal Role in e-lection Reform: The Implications and Impacts of The Help America Vote Act"; Rebecca Mercuri, founder of Notable Software, author of the quarterly "Security Watch" column and a member of the IEEE's working group on voting system standards, "E-Voting: Perils and Promises"; and David Jefferson of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, chair of the California Secretary of State's Technical Oversight Committee, which provides technical advice on the security and reliability of voting systems, "The Inherent Security Vulnerabilities with Internet Voting."
Although there is no fee associated with the symposium, seating is limited and all attendees must register before March 31. Lunch will be available for purchase and can be reserved at the time of registration. Further information and registration for the symposium is available at www.eng.yale.edu/eVoting.
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