[ale] [OT] GaTech Forum: Electronic Voting and Georgia

[aaron]

Georgia Tech's IP3 is hosting another relevant forum
on DRM and EV issues this coming Thursday:
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Thursday, October 16
3-4:30 PM, Clary Theater (Student Success Center)
and live on WREK radio, 91.1 FM (and archived on their web site)

"This event offers computer scientists, public officials, and industry
representatives an opportunity to present their analyses  to the
Georgia public. It offers a neutral, academic setting for a fact-based
discussion of what has become a contentious issue."

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Prof. Dan Wallach, Rice University Dept. of Computer Science, co-author
of "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System" (Johns Hopkins Information
Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19)

Prof. Douglas Jones, Examiners for Electronic Voting Systems, state of Iowa,
and faculty member of the Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science.

Moderator: Prof. Hans Klein, Director of IP3 and Associate Professor
of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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More detail at:
http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/events/events.htm#democracy
and links at
http://www.efga.org/

BTW:
Next Month's forum in the series may also be of interest. 
It seems that the IP3 group feels, as I do, that the current executive
branch  assaults on civil liberty and the U.S.A. Paricide Act are very 
immediately connected and relevant to DRM issues:

Balancing Freedom and Security: Re-thinking the Patriot Act
Thursday, November [ 20 ? exact date not posted]
3-5PM, Clary Theater (Student Success Center)

Bob Barr, Former Congressman from Georgia
Randy Chartash, US Dept. of Justice
Jabari Simama, Executive Director, Mayor's Office of  Community Technology, 
Atlanta