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Preliminary Agenda

Saturday, October 11, 2003

4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Registration

Sunday, October 12, 2003

7:00 a.m. - Noon

Registration

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome

9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Keynote Address and Forum

After the "End of the Beginning," Muddling through the Middle: State Election Reform Efforts One Year After HAVA

Speaker:
Doug Chapin
, Director, electionline.org

10:30 a.m. - Noon

Federal Agency Update

Speakers:

  • Ray Martinez, Election Assistance Commission
  • Paul DeGregorio, Election Assistance Commission
  • Margaret Schaefer, HAVA Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited)
  • Hans von Spakovsky, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Issue Forum: Security of Electronic Voting Systems
Concurrent Session A

What We've Done, What We Are Doing, Where We Are Going To Go

Speakers:

  • Tom Wilkey, Chair, Voting Systems Standards Board
  • Penelope Bonsall, Executive Director, Office of Election Administration, Federal Election Commission
  • Dr. Susan Zevin, Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Information Technology Lab, NIST

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Issue Forum: Voter Identification
Concurrent Session B

Challenges and Compromises in the States

Speakers:

  • Hon. Rebecca Vigil-Giron, Secretary of State, New Mexico
  • Brad Bryant, State Election Director, Kansas
  • Hon. Hob Bryan, State Representative, Alabama
  • TBA

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Financing of State and Local Reform Efforts

Speakers:
TBA

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Reception

Monday, October 13, 2003

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Federal Appropriations Update

Speakers:

  • Leonard Shambon, Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.
  • TBA

10:30 a.m. - Noon

"Real Costs" Open Forum

States are beginning to realize the full extent of the investment in election reform, and costs may extend far beyond what will be coming from Washington. This session will be a candid discussion of the full costs of overhauling elections, including:

  • Securing 5% state match
  • Budgeting and planning with uncertain federal amounts

Noon

Summit Concludes

 

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