CEIC Conference 2017

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2nd Annual National Take Back the Vote Conference

A non-partisan conference to advance the conduct of American elections – how votes are collected, counted and cast.

When: October 7 & 8, 2017, 10 AM to 6 PM

Where: South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St., Berkeley, CA, Near the Ashby BART station

Website: NVRTF.ORG

Donate: Please help us bring the speakers here!
https://www.gofundme.com/takebackthevote2

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/VotingRightsTaskForce/

YouTube Channel: California Election Integrity Coalition

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Program

Saturday, October 7, 2017

MC: Bob Fitrakis

Opening Remarks

• Luci Riley
  • Video: 2nd Take Back the Vote Conf.Opens (30 Mins)
• Bob Fitrakis
  • Video: Opening Remarks (8 Mins)

Propaganda And Political Communication In The 2016 Election

• Dr. Emma Briant , University of Essex
  • Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk
  • Video: Cambridge Analytica and Trump’s Victory (30 Mins)

Overview of 2016 Election Problems

• Steven Rosenfeld, Journalist for Alternet
  • Video: Overview of 2016 Election Problems (28 Mins)

The Trials and Tribulations of Trials

• Marilyn Marks
  • Video: The Trials and Tribulations of Trials (30 Mins)

Ranked Choice Voting for Massachusetts

• Dr. Paul Thomas, Voter Choice Mass.
  • Powerpoint: Ranked Choice Voting for Massachusetts
  • Video: How Ranked Choice Voting Tabulation Is Conducted In Minneapolis (2 Mins)
  • Video: Ranked Choice Voting in Massachussetts (37 Mins)

2016 Recount in Michigan

• Jan BenDor, Michigan Election Reform Alliance
  • Powerpoint: Repair Michigan’s Broken Election System
  • Video: 2016 Recount in Michigan (24 Mins)

2016 Recount in Wisconsin

• Karen McKim, Wisconsin Election Integrity
  • PDF Slides: Results & Lessons from the 2016 Wisconsin Recount (PDF)
  • Video: 2016 Recount in Wisconsin (27 Mins)

Internet Voting Security

• Dr. David Jefferson, Verified Voting
  • Mac Keynote Slides: Internet Voting, Russians, Block Chains, etc.
  • Video: Internet Voting Security & Blockchain Tech (31 Mins)

Secure Democracy

• Dr. Barbara Simons, Verified Voting
  • PDF Slides: Election Security
  • Video: Election Security Since 11/16 & National Defense (33 Mins)

2016 & Exit Polls

• Bob Fitrakis, Columbus State Community College
  • Topic: “The Strip & Flip Disaster of America’s Stolen Elections”
  • Video: U.S. Elections – Improbable Exit Polls, Intolerable Details (25 Mins)
• Peter Peckarsky, Peter4DNC.com
  • Topic: Unadjusted Exit Polls, Cybersecurity Risks & A Proposal
  • PDF Doc: “The Election Was Not “Free and Fair”
  • PDF Graphs: “Probabilities of Kerry Vote”
  • PDF Graphs: 2016 Vote Shares
  • PDF Doc: Protocol To Contest Election Results
  • Video: Unadjusted 2016 Exit Polls, Reducing Cyberinsecurity, A Proposal (36 Mins)

Auditing

• Jonathan Simon, Author of Code Red
  • Topic: Better Auditing
  • Mac Keynote Slides: Flat-RLA Hybrod Audit Examples
  • Video: Hybridized Flat & Risk-Limiting Audit (41 Mins)

Open Source Software

• Chris Jerdonek, President, San Francisco Elections Commission
  • PDF Slides: San Francisco’s Open Source Voting System Project
  • Video: San Francisco’s Open Source Voting Project (25 Mins)
• Stephanie Singer, Free and Fair
  • Topic: Free and Fair Open Source Election Software
  • Powerpoint: Take Back The Voting Tech Market
  • Video: Free & Fair Open Source Election Tech (38 Mins)

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

• Reception at the Center

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Sunday, October 8, 2017

MC: Manny Zapata

Opening Remarks

• Mimi Kennedy
  • Progressive Democrats of America
  • Video: Election Integrity: The Path Forward (19 Mins)

Recent Legislation In California

• Jim Soper
  • Voting Rights Task Force
  • Website: CountedAsCast.org
  • Video: Recent Election Legislation in CA (20 Mins)

A Conversation With Asm. Bill Quirk

• Asm. Bill Quirk
  • Author of AB 840
• Lowell Finley, Ray Lutz
• Moderator: Emily Levy
  • Panel Video: Panel on AB 840 (57 Mins)

Thank You To The Organizers

• Speakers: Luci Riley & Jim Soper
  • Video: Election Integrity: How Can You Get Involved? (5 Mins)

Perspective From An EI Veteran

• Emily Levy
  • Web Page: 19 Big Myths
  • Video: Election Integrity: How Can You Get Involved? (Start at 8 mins)

Auditing Panel

• Dr. Philip Stark
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Topic: Risk Limiting Audits
  • PDF Slides: Evidence-Based Elections
  • Video: Evidence-based Elections (22 Mins)
• Ray Lutz
  • Website: Citizens’ Oversight Projects
  • Topic: Improvements to California “audits”
  • Video: Snapshot Protocol (22 Mins)
• Dr. Virginia Martin
  • Elections commissioner, Columbia County, NY
  • Topic: A Modified, 100%, Centrally Hand-Counted Audit
  • Powerpoint: You can’t count paper ballots. – Want to bet?
  • Video: Central Hand Counting of Ballots (26 Mins)
• Auditing Panel Q & A
  • Video: Elections Panel Q&A (36 Mins)

Two-Tier Auditing

• Lulu Friesdat
  • NY, journalist, filmmaker,
  • Website: HollerBackFilm.com
  • PDF Paper: 2-Tier Approach
  • Powerpoint: 2-Tier Auditing
  • PDF Slides: 2-Tier Approach
  • Video: Two-Tier Auditing (36 Mins)

Ballot Images

• Lori Grace
  • Website: TrustVote.org
  • Powerpoint: Trachtenburg & Trustvote
  • Video: Election Integrity Fights Since 2000 (41 Mins)
• Karen McKim
  • Wisconsin Election Integrity
  • Topic: Auditing With Projectors
  • PDF Doc: Using automatically created digital ballot images to verify voting-machine output
  • Video: Election Audits: Requirements (30 Mins)
• John Brakey
  • Website: AUDIT-AZ
  • Powerpoint: Ballot Images (200+ MB)
  • Video: Brakey Method of Ballot Images (44 Mins)

Closing Remarks

• Luci Riley, Jim Soper
  • Video: TBTV2 Conference Closing Remarks (14 Mins)