Agenda

Michael Morris is the chair of the Information Technology Technical Assistance & Training Center (ITTATC) State Initiatives Workgroup and with the Law, Health Policy and Disabilities Center, University of Iowa Law School. The State IT Initiatives Workgroup is a workgroup of ITTATC that collaborates with the RESNA Technical Assistance Project and the Association of Tech Act Projects (ATAP). Earlier in his career, Mr. Morris worked at the United Cerebral Palsy Association, and was counsel to the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee. He was the first-ever Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Public Policy and worked for former Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut.

Stephen Berger is chair for Voting Systems Standards Project for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association with members in 150 countries. The Voting Systems Standard project is charged with developing a standard to evaluate election voting equipment that will provide technical specifications for electronic, mechanical, and human factors for manufacturers of voting machines or their customers. It includes defining requirements for voting systems to meet the usability and accessibility needs of all voters, including those with disabilities.

Doug Lewis is the Executive Director of the Election Center in Houston, Texas, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of state and local election administrators. The Center promotes, preserves, and improves democracy through research and information dissemination about laws, regulations, and practices concerning voter registration and elections administration. Center staff provide services such as administering the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) voting systems program, which is responsible for voluntary testing of voting systems hardware and software to meet or exceed the Federal Voting Systems Standards developed by the Federal Election Commission.

Gregg Vanderheiden founded the Trace Research & Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 30 years ago, and is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department (Human Factors Program) and Biomedical Engineering Department. He serves on the IEEE and HFES Voting Standard Accessibility working group, and has contributed to the Federal Elections Commission voting standards. Dr. Vanderheiden has been engaged in R& D on accessible voting since 1998, demonstrating the first cross-disability accessible voting system at FOSE in April 2000. He recently developed the EZ (R) Access techniques for providing cross-disability access in electronic products of all types, including voting systems. Finally, Dr. Vanderheiden is the principal investigator (PI) for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Information Technology Access, and co-PI for the RERC on Telecommunication Access.

Hans A. von Spakovsky is an expert on election law and voter fraud, technology, and e-commerce public policy issues. He presently serves as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he provides expertise and advice on voting and election issues and is the designated authority for HAVA issues. He is a past member of the Board of Advisors of the Voting Integrity Project, a national voting rights organization, and the former Executive Director of the Voting Integrity Project Legislative Alliance. Earlier in his career, Mr. von Spakovsky served on the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, which supervises elections in the largest county in Georgia and the City of Atlanta, and on the National Election Resource and Review Commission of the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers. Mr. von Spakovsky has testified before state and Congressional legislative committees on issues such as election reform, voter fraud, Internet voting, and e-government.

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