[CSEE-colloq] talk: Gilbert on Changing the Landscape of Voting and Voter Registration, Noon 3/28 ITE459

[Tim Finin]

            Changing the Landscape of Voting and Voter
               Registration through Universal Design

                        Dr. Juan E. Gilbert
                        School of Computing
                        Clemson University

               12:00-1:00pm Wednesday, 28 March 2012
                  Information Systems Department
                    room 459 ITE Building, UMBC


Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election,
it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was
in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording
Electronic (DRE) voting machines were purchased by several
states. The use of these machines has not been without controversy
with respect to security, trust and ease of use. Professors and
security research teams have found several vulnerabilities in
current voting technologies. In 2002, the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA) was created to provide all citizens equal access to
participate in the electoral process, regardless of ability. The
Prime III voting system, http://www.PrimeVotingSystem.com , is a
secure, multimodal electronic voting system that takes a universal
design approach to address security, trust and ease of
use. Dr. Gilbert and his research team were recently awarded a $4.5
million dollar grant from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission
to conduct research on accessible voting technologies.

Dr. Juan E. Gilbert is an IDEaS Professor and Chair of the
Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at
Clemson University where he leads the HCC Lab. He is also a
Professor in the Automotive Engineering Department at Clemson
University. Dr. Gilbert is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement Science (AAAS), an ACM Distinguished
Scientist, National Associate of the National Research Council of
the National Academies, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Senior
Member of the IEEE Computer Society. In 2011, Dr. Gilbert was
given a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Engineering
and Mathematics Mentoring by President Barack Obama.

Host: Amy Hurst, UMBC Information Systems