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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