VoteHere.net Announces New Advisory Board Members.Business Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 VoteHere.net, the leading worldwide provider of secure Internet voting systems, has recently added three members to its Board of Advisors: Larry J. Sabato, Berry Schoenmakers and Wei Dai. "VoteHere.net understands the importance of upholding election integrity," explains Jim Adler, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our advisory board represents the topmost experts and scientists in the areas of privacy, verifiability, cryptography and political analysis. We look forward to drawing on their expertise to ensure our Internet voting system remains `above the bar' when it comes to meeting the criteria for public sector elections." Dr. Larry Sabato is an election analyst and professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Dr. Sabato has authored numerous books on politics and has appeared on dozens of nationally broadcast television shows, including Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, and Larry King Live Larry King Live is a nightly CNN interview program hosted by broadcaster and writer Larry King. The show premiered in 1985, and is CNN's most watched program, with over one million viewers nightly. . He is also the author of the seven-volume Virginia Votes series chronicling all state elections, as well as articles on national and state politics. Dr. Sabato has served on such national and state commissions as the National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy, the U.S. Senate Campaign Finance Reform Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. Panel, and the Governor's Commission on Campaign Finance Reform, Government Accountability, and Ethics. A former Rhodes scholar and Danforth fellow, Dr. Sabato holds a B.A. in government from the University of Virginia, completed graduate study in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (often truncated to Woodrow Wilson School or abbreviated WWS; known as "Woody Woo" in campus slang) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. and received his doctorate in politics from Oxford University. Berry Schoenmakers is Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven or TU/e, and formerly Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven or THE) is a university of technology located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. (Netherlands), where he specializes in cryptography. Formerly, Dr. Schoenmakers worked with DigiCash and held a post-doctoral position in David Chaum's crypto group at CWI CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica , the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (Dutch: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica or CWI) is located at the Science Park Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and was founded in 1946 by J. G. van der Corput, D. van Dantzig, J. F. Koksma, H. A. in the Netherlands. He co-authored several papers on cryptographic protocols for privacy-protecting payments and electronic voting and worked on the design of electronic payment systems, in particular on the eCash(TM) system, while simultaneously taking part in the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community projects CAFE and SEMPER. Dr. Schoenmakers also designed and implemented an online voting system that uses a universally verifiable protocol; this prototype was used as the voting engine for a small-scale shadow election of the Dutch national elections in May 1998. Dr. Schoenmakers received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computing Science from Eindhoven University. Wei Dai is active in the area of cryptography and currently writes and maintains Crypto++, a free C++ class library for cryptography. Formerly, Mr. Dai worked in the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. While at Microsoft, he was involved in the study, design and implementation of cryptosystems for specialized applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Dai was a programmer with TerraSciences of Acton, Massachusetts. Mr. Dai holds a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree from the University of Washington in computer science, with a minor in mathematics. About VoteHere.net VoteHere.net is the leading worldwide supplier of secure Internet voting solutions. Founded in 1996, VoteHere.net, has developed proprietary patent-pending technology to provide secure, certifiable cer·ti·fi·a·ble adj. 1. That can or must be certified. Used of infectious, industrial, and other diseases that are required by law to be reported to health authorities. 2. Internet voting systems for both public and private elections. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.votehere.net, or contact us by phone at 1-888/457-6863 or 425/827-5156 or send email to info@votehere.net. Correspondence may also be sent to VoteHere.net, 3101 Northup Way, Suite 250, Bellevue, WA 98004-1449. |
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