Threat Analyses for Voting System Categories
A Workshop on Rating Voting Methods
VSRW 06
8-9 June 2006
Partially Funded by NSF
Topic: Election Administration: The Importance of Privacy that is Assured by Transparency.
Brief Biography:
Lillie Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Her issue areas include nanotechnology, surveillance, children's privacy, civil rights and privacy, coalition development, spectrum, census, and electronic voting. Ms. Coney also serves as Coordinator of the recently established National Committee on Voting Integrity (NCVI). NCVI was created in 2003 in response to growing concerns about the reliability of electronic voting systems.
Ms. Coney was the former Public Policy Coordinator for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Prior to that, Ms. Coney served as special assistant to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) on a variety of issues ranging from energy and information technology policy, election reform, to education policy. Her background includes extensive work in computer systems and technology policy. She has over 20 years of experience working with a wide range of civil rights and grassroots organizations on issues relating to voting and civil rights.
Testimony and Comments to Federal Agencies:
- Department of Homeland Security Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Meeting (June 7, 2006)
- FCC Comments on Petition Seeking an Okay on the Use of Auto Dialers (May 2006)
- Congressional Oversight of EAC's Enforcement of HAVA (October 4, 2005)
- EAC Hearing on New Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (August 23, 2005)
- EPIC Comments to the DOJ on Georgia Voting ID Preclearance (July 29, 2005)
- EAC Agency Rulemaking on Statewide Centralized Voter Registration (May 25, 2005)
- EAC Hearing on Statewide Centralized Voter Registration (April 28, 2005)
- EAC Comments on Survey of States on Voter Registration: (March 1, 2005)
- FTC Comments on Children's Online Privacy (February 14, 2005)
- NIST Federal Employee IDs (February 14, 2005)
- EAC's TGDC on Voter Privacy (September 22, 2004)
Law Review Articles:
- A Call for Election Reform, Volume 7, Fall 2005, Journal of Law & Social Challenges
- E-Voting: A Tale of Lost Votes, Volume XXIII - Number 3, Spring 2005, The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law