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Margaret McGaley
Margaret McGaley is a PhD candidate at NUI Maynooth conducting research on e-voting.
Margaret is the founder of Irish Citizens for Trustworthy e-Voting (ICTE), an independent advocacy group set up to highlight concerns about the introduction of e-voting in Ireland. In this role, she has made presentations to a cross-party committee of the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament) as well as interviewing for local, national and international media.
Margaret presented her findings at an EU seminar on e-democracy in Brussels in February 2004, and has had papers published at international workshops on e-voting.
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~mmcgaley/
Margaret’s 8/2/7 presentation ‘E-voting in the Republic of Ireland: A Cautionary Tale’
Colm MacCarthaigh
Colm MacCarthaigh is a founding member, occasional spokesperson and lobbyist for Irish Citizens for Trustworthy e-voting and has been an active e-voting campaigner for over 5 years and a tallyman at Irish elections since 1994.
Now living in the Netherlands, Colm has taken an interest in the Dutch e-voting situation. He is an open source developer and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.
http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/
Colm’s 8/2/7 presentation ‘Electronic Voting in Ireland and the Netherlands’
Anne-Marie Oostveen
Anne-Marie Oostveen works as a researcher at the Rathenau Institute in The Hague, Netherlands.
Formerly she held positions at the Social Science Informatics Department at the University of Amsterdam, and at the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She studied Cultural Anthropology and Social Informatics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include the social, economical, and political impact of national and international e-government, the role of users in techno-organisational change, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, and e-voting. She has recently finished her PhD thesis “Context Matters. A Social Informatics Perspective on the Design and Implications of Large-Scale e-Government Systems”. The main focus of the thesis is on the social and organisational conditions and (second-order) effects of deploying e-voting technologies.
Anne-Marie is co-founder of the Dutch foundation Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet (”We don’t trust voting computers”).
http://www.social-informatics.net/
Dr Rebecca Mercuri
Dr Rebecca Mercuri is well established as one of the leading international experts on electronic balloting and vote tabulation.
She has undertaken 17 years of research and a Ph.D. dissertation on this subject, coincidentally defended 11 days before the controversial US 2000 Presidential election. Her testimony and opinions have been sought by candidates involved in recounts, by federal organiations such as the House Science Committee, the US Commission on Civil Rights, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the UK Cabinet’s Office of the e-Envoy, as well as by numerous state and local legislative bodies and members.
Rebecca has been quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record and on the floor of the Irish Parliament. Her opinion is frequently sought by the media, including the BBC, NPR, NBC, ABC and CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Economist). Following two years of fellowships at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Radcliffe Institute, Rebecca returned to the consulting company she founded, Notable Software Inc, where she and her forensic team perform computer-related investigations and provide expert witness services on a wide range of civil, municipal and criminal cases.
http://www.notablesoftware.com
Rebecca’s 8/2/7 presentation ‘Electronic Voting: A Challenge to Democracy’
Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp was a teenage hacker who moved to Amsterdam in 1988 and founded the hacker magazine Hack-Tic in 1989. He was classed as a major security threat by authorities in The Netherlands as well as in the USA. In 1993, he co-founded XS4ALL, the first ISP to offer the Internet to private individuals in The Netherlands. Gonggrijp left in 1997, and next founded ITSX, a computer security evaluation company, which was bought by Madison Gurkha in 2006. In 2001, Gonggrijp started work on the Cryptophone, a mobile telephone that can encrypt conversations.
Throughout the years, he has repeatedly shown his concerns about the increasing amount of information on individuals that government agencies and companies have access to. Together with Frank Rieger, Rop held a controversial talk titled We lost the war at the Chaos Communication Congress 2005.
In 2006 he founded the organisation Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet (”We do not trust voting machines”), which campaigns against the use of e-voting systems without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail and which showed in October 2006 on Dutch television how an e-voting machine from manufacturer Nedap could easily be hacked.
