Transcript NIST Common Data Format Workshop Lowell Finley Deputy Secretary of State Voting Systems Technology and Policy California Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

NIST Common Data Format
Workshop
Lowell Finley
Deputy Secretary of State
Voting Systems Technology and Policy
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
Two warnings about what follows
I am not a techie
I am a lawyer
What I wish for in a
common data layer
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Integrity
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Transparency
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Auditability
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Works from cradle to cryogenic capsule
Integrity
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Accurate
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Tamper resistant
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Tamper evident
Transparency
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Horizontally
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Data transfer within a device or function
Vertically
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Date transfer between functions
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Voter registration to pollbook
Precinct tabulator to central tabulator
Central tally to results reporting module
Reporting module to press, public,
scholars
Auditability
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At each point of transfer
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By different potential auditors
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Elections officials
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Courts
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Public
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Scholars
From cradle to . . .
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Voter registration
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Candidate registration
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Precincting
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Ballot definition
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Voting (in all forms) and tallying functions
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Results reporting
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Auditing
. . . Walt's frozen head
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Permanent storage of all available data
from every election
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Not a morbid wish
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Not a pipe dream
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Intact data available when we need to
defrost it
Three Take Aways
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No technical training
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Transparency at multiple stages
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Walt's cryogenic capsule