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VIP Voting Integrety Conf 2000



is anyone going?  just curious
attached is brochure text and pdf
 
Tari Runyan
Global Election Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 747  (mailing)
2716 Fairview CT. (street)
Montesano WA 98563
voice   360-249-2445
fax   360-249-2285
cell  360-270-1159
trglobal@earthlink.net
Our conference program is building into an exciting two-days of program 
offerings you simply cannot find anywhere else!

Our conference registration website is about to launch (by Monday) and will 
offer the ability to register and pay on-line, but I thought I would give you 
the latest advance schedule of speakers and panels.  Seating is limited so 
don't wait to sign up!

--Advance Program--
VIP Voting Integrity 2000 Conference    
March 30 - April 1, 2000
Marriott Metro Center
Washington, DC

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

9 am - 5 pm             Registration
9 am - 5 pm             PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL & INTERNET VOTING 
DEMONSTRATION (Courtesy of I-Politic.com)
9 am - 5 pm         Vendor and Election Equipment Displays

GENERAL SESSION

10 am               PRESS CONFERENCE

NOON            LUNCHEON —The Hon Darryl R. Wold (Chairman, Federal 
                Elections Commission)

1:45 pm         CONFERENCE OPENING SESSION
                Welcoming Remarks by Helen Blackwell (VIP Chairman)

2:00 pm         DEBATE: "Does Money Corrupt Politics?" 
                Moderated by The Hon David Mason (FEC Commissioner)
                Panel Members: Professor Prof Steve Bronars (Univ of Texas)
                Professor Burt Neuborn (NYU School of Law)*

3:00 pm         COFFEE BREAK

3:15 pm         PANEL: "One Person One Vote in the Twenty-first Century"
                Moderated by Linda Chavez (Center for Equal Opportunity)
                Panel members: Bob Heghmann (One Man One Vote); Steven A 
Camarota (Center for Immigration Studies); Paul Donnelly (Immigration Reform 
Committee)*; Gabriel Escobar (The Washington Post)* 

4:15 pm         PANEL - "Early Voting and Vote-Only-By Mail Reforms"
                Moderated by Paul de Gregorio (University of Missouri)
                Panel members: The Hon Bill Bradbury (OR Secy of State)*; 
Tony Sirvello (Immediate past president of IACREOT & Harris County TX 
Election Director); Curtis Gans (Committee for the Study of the American 
Electorate)

5:30 pm         WELCOMING RECEPTION -- Featuring Darrell Green (of the 
Washington Redskins and the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation)
                
SATURDAY - APRIL 1

8 am - 5:00 pm      REGISTRATION
8 am - 5:00 pm      PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL & INTERNET VOTING DEMONSTRATION 
(Courtesy of I-Politic.com)
8:00 am         CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 am             OPENING SESSION REMARKS  - Conference Chairman

9:00 am         PANEL: "Approaches to Fighting Election Fraud"
                Moderated by: Hans von Spakovsky (Fulton County Election
                Commission, Atlanta GA)
                Panel members: The Hon Jeannemarie Devolites (Delegate 
Virginia Legislature), The Hon Sean Cavanagh (Commissioner, Fayette County 
PA); Charlie Young (Charlie Young & Associates); George Bruder (Senior VP, 
DBT Online, Inc.); Emmit "Bucky" Mitchell (Ass't Gen Counsel, FL Board of 
Elections)*

10:00 am            COFFEE BREAK

10:15 am            PANEL: "New Challenges to the American Voting Franchise"
                Moderated by Mark Spradley
                Panel members: The Hon Marvin "Doc" Cheatham (President, 
Baltimore City Board of Elections); Fred Scheigert; The Hon Kenneth Melvin 
(Virginia House of Delegates)*; Cynthia D Waddell (City of San Jose)

11:15 am            PANEL: "Open vs Closed Primaries"
                Moderated by (TBA)
                Panel members: Patrick M McSweeney, Esq. (McSweeney, Burtch 
and Crump)*; Others TBA

12:30 pm            LUNCHEON - KEYNOTE ADDRESS: JOHN FUND (EDITOR, THE WALL 
STREET JOURNAL)

2:00 pm         Panel: "Are We Ready for Internet Voting?"
                Moderated by Dr Lorrie Faith Cranor (AT&T Labs)
                Panel members: Shannon Wainwright (I-Politics.com); Jim Adler 
(VoteHere.net)*; Prof Jonathan Turley (Public Interest Law Center, George 
Washington University); David Jefferson (Compaq Computers/Member of 
California Internet Task  Force); Richard Smith (Internet Security Expert)

3:30 pm         COFFEE BREAK

3:45 pm         CONCURRENT SESSIONS

                PANEL: "Ballot Access and Third Party Impact on Election 
Integrity"
                Moderated by Dr Scott Becker (Ballot Access Coalition)
                Panel members: Richard Winger (Editor, Ballot Access News); 
Lewis Loss, Esq. (Commission on Presidential Debates)*;  Prof Alan Lichtman 
(American University)*

                PANEL: "Media's Changing Attitudes About Election Fraud"
                Moderated by: Larry Hart (HARTCO Strategies)
                Panel members: David Broder (The Washington Post)*, Malia 
Zimmerman (Pacific Business News); Paul Sunyak (Herald Tribune); Lance 
Williams (SF Examiner)*

4:45 pm         CONCURRENT SESSIONS

                PANEL: "The Changing of the Guard -- Engaging Tomorrow's 
Electorate"
                Moderated by: Dr Veronica Diconti, American University's 
Washington Semester Program
                Panel members: Daniel Schorr (NPR)*; Dr William Bennett*; 
Prof. Mary Ellen Shearer ("Nonvoters; America's No-Shows"; Ed McElroy 
(American Federation of Teachers)*; Karl Kurtz (National Conference of State 
Legislatures)*

                PANEL: "Direct vs Deliberative Democracy"
                Moderated by: Morton Blackwell (Chairman, The Leadership 
Institute)
                Panel members: Jonah Goldberg (Editor, National Review*; M. 
Dane Waters (Initiative and Referendum Institute); J. Ray Kennedy (Internal 
Foundation for Election Systems)

6:00 pm         SPECIAL VIP SPONSOR  RECEPTION
7:00 pm         FRED SCHEIGERT AWARDS GALA
                Featuring a debate between
                The Hon Thomas Jefferson and 
                The Hon Patrick Henry
                (in cooperation with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
                Presentation of The Fred Scheigert Award
                Keynote Address

    Sponsors: 
    DBT Online, Inc.
    Carr Goodson Warner
    The Federalist Society
    Fidlar & Chambers Company
    Initiative and Referendum Institute
    I-politic.com
    The Leadership Institute
    US Newswire, Inc
    
*invited 

conference.pdf