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handle is hein.cbhear/cbhearings80935 and id is 1 raw text is: ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2004 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 11:00 a.m., in room 1310, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Robert W. Ney (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Ney, Ehlers, Mica, Larson, Millender- McDonald, and Brady. Also Present: Representatives Hoyer and Holt. Staff Present: Paul Vinovich, Staff Director; Matt Petersen, Counsel; Payam Zakipour, Professional Staff Member; George Shevlin, Minority Staff Director; Charlie Howell, Minority Chief Counsel; Matt Pincus, Minority Professional Staff Member; Cath- erine Tran, Minority Professional Staff Member; Thomas Hicks, Minority Professional Staff Member; and Kellie Cass-Broussard, Minority Professional Staff Member. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. I am going to begin my opening statement. Mr. Larson is on his way and we have Mr. Ehlers. The committee is meeting today to discuss electronic voting system security, an issue that has garnered extensive media attention and produced impassioned opinions on all sides in recent months. Hopefully, this committee hearing will be able to shed some light on a matter that has certainly generated plenty of in- tense heat across the Nation. After the controversial presidential election of 2000, in which the term hanging chad became part of the national lexicon, Congress enacted and President Bush signed the Help America Vote Act, known as HAVA, to help restore the American public's confidence in the Federal electoral process. The goals of HAVA are simple: to ensure that all eligible Americans have an equal opportunity to vote and have their votes counted, to protect against legal votes being cancelled out by illegal votes, basi- cally making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. To accomplish these objectives, HAVA established new voter rights providing for second-chance voting, provisional ballots and enhanced access for individuals with disabilities; specifies new vot- ing standards, requires each State to implement a computerized statewide voter registration database; and requires each polling place to publicly post certain voting information, such as sample ballots, instructions regarding provisional ballots and polling place hours. To address issues relating to the security of voting tech- nologies, HAVA creates the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) chaired by the director of the National Institute

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