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
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
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)
Counted As Cast 
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