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Subject: For Politech -  National Academies/CSTB report on Electronic Voting
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:31:57 -0400
From: Lin, Herb  
To: Declan McCullagh  

> Folks - Announcing a new report from CSTB on Electronic Voting.  Below
> is the media advisory on it.
> 
> Election officials across the United States are increasingly looking
> to electronic voting systems as a way to administer elections more
> efficiently, but skeptics have raised concerns about the security and
> reliability of these systems.  ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS ABOUT
> ELECTRONIC VOTING, new from the National Academies' National Research
> Council, offers a set of questions that policy-makers and the public
> should ask to help ensure that the technologies implemented are
> secure, reliable, efficient, and easy to use.  Advance copies are now
> available to reporters. The report, which was chaired by DICK
> THORNBURGH, former governor of Pennsylvania, and RICHARD F. CELESTE,
> former governor of Ohio, was released on September 13, 2005, and is
> available free in PDF form at the web site below.
> 
> Press release at
> http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309100240?OpenDocument 
> 
> Full report at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11449.html (sign-in 
> required for the PDF version).
> 
> Herb Lin 
> Senior Scientist and Study Director
> CSTB
> National Academies
> 202-334-3191
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