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Outside Challenges to Voting System Certification May 19-20, 2015 Seattle, WA

2015 State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference

Outside Influences

Our Role as the Entity Responsible for State Certification of Voting Systems

Impact of Local Election Officials

Addressing the Needs of All Voters

Language Barriers

SECTION 203

Addressing the Needs of All Voters

Accessibility Barriers

A c c e s s E l e c t i o n s

“The Haters”

…also known as Advocates

Bin Laden Had Bev Harris’s “Black Box Voting” on His Bookshelf §  From Election Law Blog

§  http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72623 links to BuzzFeed:

§  http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/us-releases-contents-of-bin-ladens-english-language-bookshel#.exMn662Meq

§  U.S. Releases Contents Of Bin Laden’s English-Language “Bookshelf”

2015 State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference

Kevin J. Kennedy Director and General Counsel Government Accountability Board [email protected] 608-261-8683