Doylestown - The Coalition for Voting Integrity is proud to announce the second big week of the new interview and listener call-in radio show, Voice of the Voters! The Rights and Responsibilities of Democracy, airing every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM on WNJC 1360AM and the Internet.

This week's show will feature special guest Dr. Dan Lopresti of Lehigh University (bio follows).

CVI is also proud to announce that this Wednesday's show will also mark the addition of VoteTrustUSA's John Gideon. Mr. Gideon will open each show with a five-minute review of the week's voting news.

Voice of the Voters is an hour devoted to voting rights, election reform and voter-verified paper ballots. In addition to featuring Mr. Gideon and Dr. Lopresti, this week's show will also include

- An overview of electronic voting...how systems function (or should) plus problems and pitfalls

-Security issues

-Reports on electronic voting problems and analyzing the "rebuttals"

-Pennsylvania survey regarding e-voting

-What needs to be done by citizens, security specialists, government to secure and verify the integrity of OUR Voting System

In order to reach listeners concerned about electronic voting all over the state and country, The Voice of the Voters will be easily available to listeners over the Internet. Click here for instructions. All callers can use 856-227-1360 to ask the guests or the host a question.

Also new this week: Listeners may email questions ahead of the program or leave comments/suggestions by filling out a form at SaveOurVote.com. Click on "Your Questions & Comments" in the sidebar. Shows will also be archived at CVI's website.

Dr. Dan Lopresti: After completing his doctorate, he joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University. He went on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton, and later also served on the research staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill. In 2003, he joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University where he conducts research examining basic algorithmic and systems-related questions in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, and computer security.

At Lehigh, Dr. Lopresti holds the Class of 1961 Chair and is co-director of the Pattern Recognition Research Lab. He has authored over 80 publications in journals and refereed conference proceedings on a wide range of topics and holds 21 U.S. Patents. He has served on dozens of conference program committees and as editor for six international conference proceedings, and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition.

An expert in the areas of biometric security and cybersecurity with numerous publications and NSF-funded research, Dr. Lopresti turned his attention to e-voting about a year ago when it became clear to him there were many unresolved issues threatening the safe and trustworthy conduct of our elections. He has studied the numerous published reports detailing vulnerabilities in e-voting systems, as well as the official certification reports and videotapes of certification examinations for the equipment currently approved for use in Pennsylvania. Dr. Lopresti has traveled around the Commonwealth to meet with elected representatives and government officials in Harrisburg, as well as in Northampton, Lehigh, and Bucks Counties. He organized a public debate on the e-voting issue last spring, is co-author of a recently released survey of Pennsylvania voters on the e-voting issue, and has currently initiated several research projects on the e-voting topic working with students at Lehigh University. See more on e-voting at Professor Lopresti's website.

Upcoming guests include:

11/1 - Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins. Author of Brave New Ballot, which tells the story of his role as a whistle-blower. In the book he shows how easy it is to rig an election and describes the vulnerability of computerized systems to tampering, not only by insiders like poll workers but also by outsiders able to breach the system without detection.

 

11/8 - Joan Krawitz, Executive Director of VoteTrustUSA. Ms. Krawitz has worked full-time on election reform issues since 2002, when she participated in the original research investigating touch screen voting machines. A founder and director of the National Ballot Integrity Project, she also served as Executive Director of the Help America Recount Fund, a 527 organization formed to help fund the 2004 recount effort.

11/15 - Dr. Steve Freeman, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count.

WHAT: The 10/25 installment of CVI's weekly, one-hour radio show, Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy, with special guest Dr. Dan Lopresti.

WHEN: Wednesday, 10/25, 8:00PM

WHERE: WNJC 1360AM, Philadelphia's Renaissance Radio Station and everywhere on the Internet.

Contact information:

Mary Ann Gould

Coalition for Voting Integrity

votingintegrity@aol.com

(c) 215.588.8518

(h) 215.357.5206