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Project Title:
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State Voter Registration Databases
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CSTB-L-05-07-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Sub Unit:
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Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
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RSO:
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Lin, Herb
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Committee on State Voter Registration Databases
August 6, 2007 - August 7, 2007
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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| Contact Name:
Brandye Williams
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| Email:
brwillia@nas.edu
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| Phone:
202-334-1481
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Fax:
202-334-2318
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Agenda:
August 6, 2007
OPEN SESSION
Room 110
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Sponsor’s Charge to the Committee
Thomas R. Wilkey, Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
10:15 – 10:30 Break
Room 100
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome to the Workshop
Sharon Priest and Olene Walker, Committee and Workshop Co-chairs
10:45 – 12:00 p.m. Panel I Overview of the Issues
What are key voter registration issues, and how do they affect the establishment of statewide voter registration databases as mandated by HAVA?
Moderator: Sharon Priest/ Olene Walker
Panelists:
Gracia M. Hillman, Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Caroline C. Hunter, Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Leonard M. Shambon, formerly with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Robert A. Pastor, Executive Director, Carter-Baker Commission and
Director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management,
American University
Q&A with presenters
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch Available (1st floor prefunction area)
Continue discussion from first panel session and prepare for afternoon sessions
12:45 – 2:15 Panel II Status of Voter Registration Database Efforts
What are the different types and approaches to voter registration systems? What are the benefits and tradeoffs? Do you build it on your own or do you contract it out? What are some upcoming challenges that will need to be addressed in the near term (1-2 years) and in the longer term (5+ years)?
Moderator: Bruce McPherson
Panelists:
Deborah Markowitz, Secretary of State, Vermont, and Immediate Past
President of National Association of Secretaries of State,
Brad Bryant, President, National Association of State Election Directors and
Deputy Assistant for Elections, Kansas
Linda Lindberg, General Registrar, Arlington County, Virginia
Q&A with presenters
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 Web Cast Begins
2:30 – 2:35 Welcome and Brief Overview for Web Cast Audience
2:35 – 4:00 Panel III Record Matching: Technical/Operational Issues and Problems
What types of technical problems can occur in record linking? What is the impact on data quality? What type of data cleaning is required? What are potential solutions to these problems?
Moderator: William Winkler
Panelists:
Gio Wiederhold, Professor (Emeritus), Computer Science, Medicine,
and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
William Cohen, Associate Research Professor, Machine Learning
Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Franklin, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Respondents:
James Willis, Former Director, eGovernment for Rhode Island
Frank Olken, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Q&A with presenters
4:00 – 5:30 Panel IV Interoperability and Database Operations in Other Domains
What kinds of problems or issues exist in non-election domains (i.e., government and non-governmental settings), including technical and organization dimensions? What is the range of possible solutions?
Moderator: Paula Hawthorn
Panelists:
John Glaser, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners
Healthcare System
Dan Schutzer, Executive Director, Financial Services Technology
Consortium
Vivek Narasayya, Senior Researcher, Data Management, Exploration and
Mining Group, Microsoft Research
Ken Orr, Founder, Ken Orr Institute (participating by phone and web
conference)
Q&A with presenters
5:30 Adjourn/ Open Reception (1st floor prefunction area)
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Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Sharon Priest
Olene Walker
Rakesh Agrawal
Charlotte W. Cleary
Gary Cox
Paula Hawthorn
Sarah Ball Johnson
Jeff Jonas
John W. Lindback
Bruce A. McPherson
Wendy Noren
William E. Winkler
Rebecca N. Wright
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
Overview of the project & NRC study process Balance and composition
discussion Committee perspectives and reactions to workshop
briefings
Planning for next meetings and discussion of next workshops and
briefers
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
Voluntary Guidance on Implementation of Statewide Voter
Registration
Lists by the EAC Presentation handout by Lenny Shambon.
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:
August 17, 2007
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