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Activities & News
NCVI releases 2008 General Election Guidelines to Election Officials, Election Protection, and Voters to aid in their preparations for the November 4, 2008. (October 23, 2008)
NCVI releases E-Deceptive Campaign Practices Report: Internet Technology & Democracy 2.0 on issues of online communications and deceptive messages. (October 20, 2008)
NCVI coordinated a discussion on e-Deceptive Campaign Practices at the 18th Annual Computer Freedom and Privacy meeting held in New Haven Connecticut, May 20-24, 2008. The report panel looked at the incidents of voter suppression that are collectively known as deceptive campaign practices and evidence that the Internet is present new ground for these tactics to go online. (May 20, 2008)
The Government Accounting Office released its report titled Results of GAO's Testing of Voting Systems Use in Sarasota County in Florida's 13th Congressional District. The report preparers in the review also spoke with ES&S, State and local elections officials, and the contestants. (February 8, 2008)
NCVI members David Chaum and Peter Neumann join an amicus
brief as technology experts
in the case Crawford
v. Marion County Indiana. The case involved the state of
Indiana's use of poor security standards and REAL ID in conjunction
with a statewide-centralized
voter registration database to control access to voting. Lillie Coney
contributed to the drafting of the brief. (November 13, 2007)
The Technical Guidelines
Development Committee sends the
draft 2007
Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines to the Election Assistance Commission.
The Committee worked for several months to finalize the draft recommendations
that are intended to update the 2005
version of voluntary guidance to
voting technology vendors and states for election systems. The Chair
of the Commission announced that the process will be completed sometime
in 2009. (August 17, 2007)
House Committee
on Administration holds hearing
on Election Audits. Election Addicts to House Committee. Committee
for Voting Integrity submits a statement to
the House Committee on Administration for
its hearing on the topic of “Election Reform: Auditing.”the statement
supported the establishment of public election auditing standards that
are just as well accepted, and measurable as financial auditing standards
to achieve greater transparency of the public election process. (March
20,
2007)
Punchscan Wins First
Place in VoComp 2007 contest. The
event provided encouragement to university students and researchers interested
in developing next generation voting systems. NCVI member David Chaum
invented
the
Punchscan voting system, which a team of university students used to
enter the competition.The voting method allows voters to take a piece
of the ballot home with
them
as a receipt. This receipt does not allow voters to prove how they voted
to others, but it does permit them to prove to others how they voted.
NCVI members David Dill, Doug Jones, and Lillie Coney were on the program
committee for VoComp
2007.
(July 27, 2007)
Senate Committee on Rules held its first hearing on S.
1487, the Ballot Integrity Act of 2007, a bill to amend the Help
America Vote Act of 2002 to require an individual, durable, voter-verified
paper record under title III of such Act. (July 25, 2007)
The Election Assistance Commission's (EAC)
Technical Guidelines Development Committee is holding two
days of meetings to finalize the voluntary voting systems
guidance draft document for 2007. Once this
stage of the standards drafting process is complete the document will
be sent to the EAC. After this process the next phase of the process
is the public comment period which be announced with its publication
in the Federal Register. (May 21, 2007)
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