Saturday, February 28 2004, 8:30 AM (refreshments) to 4:00 PM
Room 295, Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street,
Boston, MA 02108 (right across from Park Street Station)

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PROGRAM

9-9:10 Welcome

• Madhu Sridhar, President, Massachusetts League of Women Voters (audio) (video)
• Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts (audio) (video)

9:10 - 9:50 RELIABILITY OF ELECTRONIC AND PAPER VOTING

• Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Political Science at MIT; member of the Cal Tech/MIT Voting Project (audio) (video)

Introduced by Alex Brown, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers - Society on Social Implications of Technology (audio) (video)

Questions and answers (audio) (video)

9:50 - 11:15 Panel I: THE SEARCH FOR VOTING INTEGRITY

Moderator: Madhu Sridhar, President, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts (audio) (video)

• From Congress to the Commonwealth: an overview of intiatives - George Pillsbury, Policy Director, MassVote (audio) (video) (presentation - MS Powerpoint)
• Lessons from Florida 2000 - Dr. Arlene Ash, Research Professor, Boston University Schools of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) and Public Health (Department of Biostatistics) (audio) (video) (presentation - MS Powerpoint)
• Do new voting technologies present solutions or new problems for communities of color? -- David Harris, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law (audio) (video) (presentation)
• Diebold: in their own words - Scott Ananian, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT (audio) (introduction) (video) (presentation - PDF)

Questions and answers (audio) (video)

11:15 - 11:30 BREAK

11:30 - 12:15 ELECTRONIC VOTING: PROSPECTS

• Voting Technology: Current Assessment and Future Prospects - Ted Selker, MIT Media Laboratory, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (audio) (video) (presentation - Powerpoint)

Introduced by Robert Plotkin, ACLU of Massachusetts & IEEE (audio) (video) (video)

12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH

1:15 - 2:30 Panel II: LEGAL ISSUES IN VOTING INTEGRITY

• Electronic voting technology and disability rights -- Jim Dickson, American Association for People with Disabilities (audio) (video) (presentation)
• Open source software: trade secrets and the public interest -- Jonathan Zittrain, The Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (audio) (video) (presentation)
• Can voting machines be returned? -- Curt Nyquist, Professor, New England School of Law (audio) (video) (presentation)

Moderator: Carol Rose for David Harris, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law (audio) (video)

Questions and answers (audio) (video)

2:30– 3:20 ELECTRONIC VOTING: PERILS AND PROMISES

• Electronic Voting: Perils and Promises - Rebecca Mercuri, Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (audio) (video)

Introduced by Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts (audio) (video)

Questions and answers (audio) (video)

3:20 AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

• Audience and speakers invited to participate (audio) (video)

Moderated by Dave Lewit, Alliance for Democracy

4:15 CLOSE