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Source: Alley Stoughton, 785-532-6350, stough@k-state.edu

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

ELECTRONIC VOTING EXPERT TO PRESENT SEMINAR AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- An internationally recognized expert in voting systems and election security will present a special seminar on electronic voting at Kansas State University.

Douglas Jones, associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa, will present "The Trials and Tribulations of Electronic Voting" from 1:30-2:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Hale Library's Hemisphere Room. The seminar is free and the public is invited. It is sponsored by K-State's Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy, department of computing and information sciences and K-State Libraries, as well as the League of Women Voters of Manhattan/Riley County.

Jones served on the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems from 1994 to 2004, chairing the board for three years. The board examines all voting systems offered for sale in the state of Iowa to determine if they meet the requirements of state law. Jones also testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings in Tallahassee after the 2000 presidential election. He has testified before the U.S. House Science Committee, the Federal Election Commission and in several courts.

He has consulted with numerous international, national, state and local agencies about matters of election administration, and he has written widely on these issues. Jones also is one of the 10 principle investigators for A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections, a multi-institutional center awarded a five-year research grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2005.