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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
102 South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

Center for Information Technology Policy
Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

joehall@berkeley.edu
http://www.josephhall.org/ (web)
http://www.josephhall.org/nqb2/ (blog)
815.301.3881 (fax)
(GPG key)

(send postal mail to Princeton address)

Other Interests (photos, shows, music, charity)

ACCURATE has submitted comments on the EAC's proposed Voluntary Voting
System Guidelines v1.1 (VVSG v1.1): accurate_vvsgv11_comment.pdf (PDF) (28 Sep 2009)

Our paper, "Implementing Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits in California" has been accepted
to the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT'08) Workshop.
Read the paper: arXiv, SSRN, PDF.

My PhD Dissertation, "Policy Mechanisms for Increasing Transparency
in Electronic Voting" is now available: PDF.

My paper, "Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency
of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures", has been accepted
to the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT'08) Workshop.
Read the paper: SSRN, PDF.

I was part of California's Top-To-Bottom Review and Ohio's EVEREST Review of voting systems.

My paper "Contractual Barriers to Transparency in Electronic Voting" has been accepted
to the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT'07) Workshop.
Read the paper: SSRN, PDF.

ACCURATE has submitted comments to the EAC's proposed Voting System Testing &
Certification Program Manual: ACCURATE_VSTCP_comment.pdf (PDF) (31 Oct 2006)

My paper "Transparency and Access to Source Code in E-Voting" has been accepted
to the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT'06) Workshop.
Read the paper: SSRN, PDF.

Deirdre Mulligan and I testified before the California State Senate
Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and the Constitution
on "Open Source Software -- Does It Have A Place In California's Electoral System?"
Read our testimony (PDF).

ACCURATE has submitted comments to the EAC's proposed 2005 Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines: 2005_vvsg_comment.pdf (PDF) (30 Sep 2005)

A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Trasparent Elections (ACCURATE)
has been funded by the NSF for $7.5 Million over five years.
The scientific proposal is available here: accurate_prop.pdf (PDF). (15 Aug 2005)

Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner.
Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems.
Poster Paper, National Conference on Digital Government Research (May 2005).

See our whitepaper submission to the NRC's committee on e-voting:
"Preliminary Analysis Of E-Voting Problems Highlights Need For Heightened Standards And Testing" (PDF)
Deirdre Mulligan, Joseph Lorenzo Hall (SLTPPC, Dec. 2004)

"A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot" (PDF)
has been accepted to the FREENIX track of USENIX 2005.
(a collaboration with members of the Open Voting Consortium)

A list of Microsoft patents: http://mspatents.notlong.com/.

"Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine"
has been accepted to the ACM's WPES 2004.

The FEC's 1990 Voting Systems Standards (PDF)

I've translated the FEC's 2002 Voting Systems Standards to PDF format here.
(get the .tar.gz here: fec_vss_2002_pdf.tar.gz).

Gearhead Records: Ass-Kickin' Rock N' Roll And Muscle Cars [photo gallery]
Feature article for Clink Magazine:
(an interview with Mike LaVella of Gearhead Records; Jan 2004, PDF)

"Columbia & Challenger: Organizational Failure at NASA"
has just been published in the November 2003 issue of Space Policy (PDF).

Check out my Clink Magazine pieces:

Review: Scissorfight -- Potential New Agent for Unconventional Warfare	[10 Aug 2003]
Review: Harkonen -- Shake Harder Boy	[04 Aug 2003]
Testify!: Murderin Music -- The Murder City Devils	[22 Jun 2003]

Why should you think carefully before sending email attachments? (PDF)

Alán and I had planned on introducing the following resolution at a UC Berkeley GA meeting this Fall.
However, Alán is no longer GA sys. admin. and I am no longer a GA delegate. We offer this now as model legislation.:
"RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF OPEN/FREE SOFTWARE AND STANDARDS" (PDF)

As passed on Oct. 3 2002:
"A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL FREEDOM IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING"
(TXT, PDF, enclosures/ supporting documents (PDF): 1, 2, 3)