Daniel Lowenstein, Michael Alvarez, Roy Schotland and Spencer Overton to Speak at The Election Law Summit.

Business Editors

LARCHMONT, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002

Daniel Lowenstein, UCLA Law School Professor; Michael Alvarez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Caltech; Roy A. Schotland, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and Spencer A. Overton, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis will speak at The Election Law Summit, sponsored by Mary Ann Liebert publishers (www.liebertpub.com) and presented by Bioconferences International, (www.bioconferences.com) to be held June 23 - 25 at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC. The Summit is sponsored by Election Law Journal (www.liebertpub.com/elj), a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publication co-edited by Daniel H. Lowenstein, UCLA Law School Professor, and Richard L. Hasen, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

The Summit will cover such topics as redistricting, voting rights issues, state election reform, international voting practices, media challenges in covering election night, and lessons from the past Presidential election.

Speakers include Jan Witold Baran, Head of Election Law and Government Ethics Practice, and Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding; Robert F. Bauer, Partner and Chair, Political Law Group, Perkins Coie; David Cardwell, Principal, The Cardwell Law Group; Todd A. Cox, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Susan Frederick, Director, Law and Justice Committee, National Conference of State Legislators; Lance F. Gough, President, International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers; Paul S. Herrnson, Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; Sam Hirsch, Partner, Jenner & Block; Lawrence A. Mandelker, Kantor Davidoff, Wolfe, Mandelker & Kass; Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Trevor Potter, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale; Joseph E. Sandler, Sandler, Reiff & Young; Bradley A. Smith, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission; Richard Soudriette, President, International Foundation for Election Systems; Robert A. Spolzino, New York State Supreme Court Justice; Sharon Priest, Secretary of State, Arkansas; William F. Welsh, Chairman, Election Systems & Software; and Judy Woodruff, CNN Prime Anchor.

Diebold Election Systems will be among the exhibitors at the conference. For more information about exhibiting, sponsoring, or attending the conference, please contact Joanne Gallichio at [phone], ext 629, or by email [e-mail].