[CAVO] Fwd: [VVSG-election] Announcement of upcoming interoperability working group telecons

[Brent Turner]

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From: Wack, John (Fed) <john.wack at nist.gov>
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:36 AM
Subject: [VVSG-election] Announcement of upcoming interoperability working
group telecons
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Hi everyone,



I'm sending this message about upcoming interoperability working group
telecons to all of the public working groups, which I normally don't do but
in this case we have some work going on that you might want to know about
and thus attend.



Coming this *Friday, 14 October*, there is a telecon hosted by Kenneth
Bennett of LA County; Kenneth will present an overview of the election
business process modeling work, going over the goals of the project and the
methodology he has chosen. He will then go through the models themselves
and show how they are arranged and work together. This is getting to be a
significant body of work, with many models developed thus far. It has
become useful in the interoperability working group in that the business
process models perform the basis for use cases for the common data formats,
in that the models show election processes that are, in general, common
across all states. Kenneth and attendees of the telecons have done an
excellent job and I believe you will be impressed with the amount of work.
I urge you to attend this telecon and learn more.



Coming *Friday, 28 October*, there is a telecon hosted by Lauren
Massa-Lochridge, who will present the voting method/models work, which
aims, in a nutshell, to formally define voting variations (methods), with
the ultimate goal that this work be available for inclusion in the next
VVSG and/or other standards. This work has become increasingly valuable to
the interoperability working group as it works in areas that involve items
such as cast vote records and tabulation. Recently, there have been a
number of very good online discussions about issues regarding ranked choice
voting (RCV) and other lesser-used voting methods that manufacturers still
need to include in their offerings in a consistent, well-defined way. I
urge you to attend this telecon as well; Lauren’s work can be highly
mathematical but she plans to present it such that it is accessible to all
audiences.



Coming *Friday, 11 November*, I will host the interoperability working
group telecon and focus on the glossary that we have developed for use with
the public working groups, the next VVSG, and for use in general in the
elections world. This glossary was built from glossaries in the VVSG
versions as well as other elections glossaries available. It contains a
large number of terms and aims to define a primary term and associated
definition, and then include other terms as used in other states such that
different terms point to the same definition. I need help and advice with
this glossary, thus my aim is to make you aware of it, go over it
structure, and then discuss whether its shape and form needs to change to
better accommodate its goals.



Please see the interoperability public working group page (
http://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting/Interoperability) for
more details about these telecons and how to add them to your calendar. If
you have any questions, please let me know.



Cheers, John
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