The University of California, Santa Cruz,
Jack Baskin School of Engineering

Forum on Electronic Voting

This forum will present several perspectives on the current controversy surrounding electronic voting systems. While many computer scientists argue that the results from such systems are unverifiable and vulnerable to tampering, some election officials seem unconcerned. Tens of thousands of these voting machines are now being deployed across the U.S. and will be used to count about 40% of the votes in 2004.

Speakers:

• Prof. David Dill, Computer Science, Stanford
• Warren Slocum, Chief Elections Officer and Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder, San Mateo County
• Assemblyman Joe Simitian, 21st Assembly District
• Alan Dechert, Open Voting Consortium
• Marion Taylor, League of Women Voters, (videotaped presentation)
• Presentation of Open Letter to League of Women Voters
• Ryan Coonerty, National Commission on Federal Election Reform
• Prof. Arthur Keller, ISTM, UCSC, Host and Moderator

Cosponsors:

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• UCSC Chapter of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
• UCSC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery

Sunday, October 26, 2003 (please note the date; the Santa Cruz Sentinel printed the wrong date and corrected it online and reprinted it too)
12:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Baskin Engineering, Room 152, UCSC
Overflow rooms are 156 and Baskin Engineering lobby
Note: questions for presenters may only be asked from room 152

The event will be broadcast live through the campus television system. We don't yet know what channel, and there is no way to call in your questions.

SCCTV will re-broadcast the Forum within the 2-3 weeks following the event. Data and time of that re-broadcast willbe posted to this Forum web page.

We will try to make videotapes of the Forum available later and to make it also available later through a streaming media server. Details on that will also be available from this web page.

This is event is free and is open to the public

For more information about the forum, contact kibrick@cruzio.com, or consult this forum web page, www.soe.ucsc.edu/~ark/evoting.html.

Click here for maps and directions to the UCSC campus.
Parking will be in the Core West Parking Structure. Overflow parking is at the North Remote lot.

Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to call Ma Xiong at the Baskin School of Engineering, (831) 459-5745 between 9am and 3pm Monday to Friday.

Click here for the press release on this event.

Click here for the UC Santa Cruz currents article on this event.

Click here for the Santa Cruz Sentinel article on the Forum.