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Title: NIST Common Data Format Workshop


1
NIST Common Data Format Workshop
  • Lowell Finley
  • Deputy Secretary of State
  • Voting Systems Technology and Policy
  • California Secretary of State Debra Bowen

2
Two warnings about what follows
  • I am not a techie
  • I am a lawyer

3
What I wish for in acommon data layer
  • Integrity
  • Transparency
  • Auditability
  • Works from cradle to cryogenic capsule

4
Integrity
  • Accurate
  • Tamper resistant
  • Tamper evident

5
Transparency
  • Horizontally
  • Data transfer within a device or function
  • Vertically
  • Date transfer between functions
  • Voter registration to pollbook
  • Precinct tabulator to central tabulator
  • Central tally to results reporting module
  • Reporting module to press, public, scholars

6
Auditability
  • At each point of transfer
  • By different potential auditors
  • Elections officials
  • Courts
  • Public
  • Scholars

7
From cradle to . . .
  • Voter registration
  • Candidate registration
  • Precincting
  • Ballot definition
  • Voting (in all forms) and tallying functions
  • Results reporting
  • Auditing

8
. . . Walt's frozen head
  • Permanent storage of all available data from
    every election
  • Not a morbid wish
  • Not a pipe dream
  • Intact data available when we need to defrost it

9
Three Take Aways
  • No technical training
  • Transparency at multiple stages
  • Walt's cryogenic capsule
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