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Shanee - NIST (voting) - The voting domain - serves everyone. lots of differences and preferences. so the end user for a voting system is everyone. at NIST we do standards, adn these are written for manuf. of voting systems to be purchased by election officials who train the poll workers on how to help voters. so there are lots of people involved in the voting process. Also, when we looked at accessibility, there is a lot going on there. there is security--can’t plug in your own device, then there is privacy--your ballot has to be your own, should do it without assistance; voting occurs every four years. Now looking at voting anywhere--so you can for example do it on ipad or library or wherever--on a personal device--then you go to the voting place and cast it. so separates ballot marking and ballot casting. but still need to be able to verify your marking and casting. how do you verify it if you’ve marked it on own device. we are looking at this.
Whitney, NIST Center for Civic Design (voting): two things i want to add to shanee. voting is not just casting ballot. there is a lot to it. and that stuff is very important as well. elections are slow to change for all kinds of reason. we are in the process of doing a lot of rethinking about what it means to vote and be an engaged citizen in 21st c. so there are lots of opps for preferences outside the casting of the ballot (how do you know where to go? how do you decide what you will vote on? how are you engaged in the voting process? how can can interaction around voting decisions be simplified? etc). The process for voting from voting worker differs from the voter perspective. Voter perspective’s process is differeint--it’s about where do i vote, who am i voting for, etc.[she has a few readings from their reserach to share]
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