Jones To Speak In Ottumwa Monday
UPDATE on 10/10/06: Press account of the event is here.
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The Ottumwa League of Women Voters and Indian Hills Community College are co sponsoring a program on “The Trials and Tribulations of Electronic Voting” on Monday evening October 9th at 7PM in the Advance Tech Building Room #134 on the IHCC campus.
The speaker will be Douglas W. Jones PhD., Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa .
Dr. Jones has testified regarding voting system technology in several states since 2000 as well as the Federal Election Commission. His statements on problems with voting technology have been quoted by the New York Times, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, and Scientific American . He has been a guest of NPR Science Friday.
He participated in the 2006 revision of New York ’s voting system standards. He served on the Election Observation Mission for the 2005 presidential election in Kazakhstan .
The public is invited to attend this lecture and participate in the dialog following Dr. Jones presentation.
—LWV press release