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I've finished the camera-ready version of the last chapter of my thesis (essentially) to appear at the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT'08). It's entitled, Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures and is now available on my site in PDF.

EVT'08 is shaping up to be an amazing event; check the program out. The other papers should appear linked from the schedule in coming weeks.

Jon Krosnick (Stanford) will deliver the keynote entitled, "Designing Ballots to Prevent Bias: How the Order of Candidate Names Determined Who Was Elected President". Krosnick is the leading researcher in terms of survey instrument questionnaire design and has some very interesting insight into ballot positioning.

We've added two panels to the agenda that will be dynamite. I'm chairing a panel entitled "How Can Researchers and Election Officials Better Work Together?" including Jeremy Epstein, Elaine Ginnold, Greg Luke, David Wagner and Steve Weir. The godfather of California e-voting, David Jefferson, will chair a second panel on day 2 entitled, "Technical Monitoring and Other Post-TTBR Interim Strategies" and includes panelists Matt Bishop, Debra Bowen, Candice Hoke and Tom Stanionis.