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Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Event: National Committee on Voting Integrity Media Availability
Contact: Lillie Coney 202 483 1140 ext. 111

Election Day Media Availability November 2, 2004
National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI)
“ When is a Glitch an Election System Failure?”

Washington, DC--The National Committee on Voting Integrity (NCVI) will have media availability all day on Election Day. The National Committee is a non-partisan organization made up of leading voting technology experts, legal scholars, constitutional law experts, and election policymakers who are dedicated to achieving voter verifiable-audit capacity for voting technology used in public elections.

Dr. Peter Neumann is Principal Scientist at SRI International Computer Science Laboratory, with over 20 years of experience documenting voting technology vulnerabilities, and consulting with local and state election administrators on voting technology security issues. He is also the author of the internationally recognized comprehensive chronicle of computer technology failures “Computer Related Risk.” He is also the Chair of the National Committee for Voting Integrity.

Dr. David Chaum proposed the first secure protocols for electronic voting in 1989 as part of his Master's Thesis at Berkeley. Since then he has developed the Votegrity secure polling place technology. He also invented eCash as well as founded DigiCash and the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. He can be reached at 818 789 1024 or by e-mail at david@chaum.com.

Dr. David Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and founder of Verified Voting an organization of computing professionals dedicated to voter verified paper ballot use in public elections. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity.

Dr. David Jefferson is with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and an election security expert who co-authored the report, “A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)”, which led to the cancellation of the Defense Department’s Internet Voting Project for 2004.

Dr. Doug Jones is an Associate Professor Computer Science Department Iowa State University, voting technology expert and consultant to local election officials in several states including the State of Florida. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. On Election Day Dr. Jones may be reached by cellphone (319) 430-7207.

Vincent J Lipsio is a firmware engineer who has worked on several mission-critical projects, such as medical devices, including being system architect of two FDA Class 3 devices (which means malfunction can cause death) as well as a piece of the Boeing 777. He is also a member of IEEE and IEEE-SA (Standards Association) and a volunteer in drafting "Voting Equipment Standards" (IEEE 1583). He is also a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. He lives in Florida where he is involved in informing elected officials and the general public about the risks of unauditable voting equipment and in working to try to improve the voting processes. He can be reached by cellphone at 352.339.5408 or at home at 352.336.6343 x 2.

Dr. Aviel Rubin Professor of Computer Science, Technical Director, Information Security Institute at John Hopkins University, and co-author of the “Hopkins’s Report” that exposed serious security flaws with the Diebold voting system. He is also a co-author of the SERVE report, which led to the cancellation of the Defense Department’s Internet Voting Project for 2004. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. Available November 3, 2004.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Beyond Fear. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity.

Dr. Barbara Simons is a former President of the Association for Computing Machinery and an expert on electronic voting. Dr. Simons was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting and co-authored the SERVE report, which led to the cancellation of the Defense Department’s Internet Voting Project for 2004. She is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. She can be reached on her cellphone at 650-604-6080 or on November 3 at 650-328-8730.

Dr. Dan Wallach is an assistant professor in the systems group at Rice University's Department of Computer Science and co-author of the “Hopkins’s Report” that exposed serious security flaws with the Diebold voting system. He is a member of the National Committee for Voting Integrity. He can be reached at University of Rice News Office 713-348-6386.

NCVI maintains a web site at http://www.votingintegrity.org.