RE: [election-services] OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote Foundation toDevelop XML Data Model for Online Exchange of Voter Registration Data

John,

We can do what we did with 5.0 and California.

Start v6 into OASIS process - and submit comments of any minor changes that may be needed over the next couple of months.

Anyway - I'll will reach out to Susan this week and see what transpires.

Thanks, DW

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Subject: RE: [election-services] OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote

Foundation to Develop XML Data Model for Online Exchange of Voter

Registration Data

From: "John Borras" <>

Date: Sun, July 19, 2009 5:11 am

To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <>, "Joseph Lorenzo Hall"

<>

Cc: "eml" <>

        
 
Can you guys between you get in touch with the project and sell them EML please.  It would be a shame if they came up with further changes required but I’m not inclined to hold v6 any longer for that.
 
 
 
 
John
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:] 
 Sent: 18 July 2009 17:50
 To: John Borras
 Cc: eml; Joseph Lorenzo Hall
 Subject: RE: [election-services] OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote Foundation to Develop XML Data Model for Online Exchange of Voter Registration Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
John,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Looks like they have already penciled in considering EML:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"examine other efforts already underway in the definition of voter and
 election data such
 as the Elections Markup Language (EML) work of the OASIS Elections &
 Voter Services
 Group, and other academic projects."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I can contact Susan on Monday - in her DC office - and then followup as needed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I think the work we are just completing with Pew and Google on the EML 510 compatible with VIP - should be a major selling point here - since clearly all these pieces should fit together - registration and districting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Also - the changes we've made to support US "district/precinct" concepts in V6 - should now allow us to complete the other piece - voter registration.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If Joe has an introduction here, great, otherwise I'll followup and report back progress etc.
 
 Thanks, DW
 
  
 
-------- Original Message --------
 Subject: RE: [election-services] OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote
 Foundation to Develop XML Data Model for Online Exchange of Voter
 Registration Data
 From: "John Borras" <>
 Date: Sat, July 18, 2009 6:15 am
 To: "Joseph Lorenzo Hall" <>
 Cc: "eml" <>
 
 Joe
 
 Are you on the inside of this project or do we need to find some other
 friend to promote our cause?
 
 John
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [mailto:] 
 Sent: 17 July 2009 20:56
 To: eml
 Subject: [election-services] OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote
 Foundation to Develop XML Data Model for Online Exchange of Voter
 Registration Data
 
 FYI
 
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 https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/files/OVF-OSDV_%2817July09%29.pdf
 
 OSDV Foundation and Overseas Vote Foundation to Develop XML Data Model
 for Online Exchange of Voter Registration Data
 Alliance to Provide States a Method to Streamline Voter Registration
 Processing
 
 Minneapolis, MN - July 17, 2009 - In an agreement announced today at
 the National
 Civic Summit in Minneapolis, the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV)
 Foundation's
 TrustTheVote Project and Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) will
 co-develop a new XML
 data model for the electronic exchange of voter registration data.
 The data exchange
 protocol will significantly streamline, accelerate and improve states'
 processing of voter
 registration forms. This online data transfer model will make it
 possible for States to
 electronically accept registration form data and then rapidly verify
 the applicant's record
 with the physical signed copy as received.
 
 "A known challenge facing states today is the last minute volume of
 voter registration
 forms that arrive just days before the registration deadline,"
 explained John Sebes, CTO
 of the OSDV Foundation's TrustTheVote Project. "Despite the rise in
 third party registrar
 services that make registration forms available online, the completed
 forms must be sent
 in as hard copy in order to meet the signature requirement. This
 causes a significant
 bottleneck in processing the actual form data due to the manual
 re-keying of the printed
 data. All this can be avoided by use of our new proposed standard
 data format."
 
 "This is a natural and greatly needed development to what we already
 do for many
 states," said Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, President and CEO, OVF. "This
 particular
 effort to improve the cycle-time for registration will help both
 election officials and
 voters."
 
 The TrustTheVote Project's open source digital voter registration
 system is being built
 for states' free adoption and will have the capacity to accept voter
 registration data
 online. Using a scanner, incoming signed registration forms can be
 immediately
 reconciled with online data using an XML-based voter registration data
 model without
 needing to re-key the printed data. The XML model also allows states
 to establish
 standards for the structure, organization and exchange of this data.
 
 "Working with the TrustTheVote Project allows us to combine their
 technical expertise
 and our experience in handling voter registration processes from the
 unique perspective
 of overseas voting to produce an open source solution which reflects
 the missions of
 both of our Foundations," added Dzieduszycka-Suinat. Both OSDV and OVF
 intend to
 examine other efforts already underway in the definition of voter and
 election data such
 as the Elections Markup Language (EML) work of the OASIS Elections &
 Voter Services
 Group, and other academic projects.
 
 The OSDV Foundation's TrustTheVote Project work relies on a
 stakeholder community
 of state election officials and other voting systems experts to guide
 the design and
 development of open source elections technology, freely available to
 any state or local
 election jurisdiction. By collaborating with this community, called
 the "TTV Design
 Congress," OVF and OSDV can produce a data model that will best
 reflect the needs of
 the states. The open source XML voter registration data exchange model
 will be
 available by the end of 2009 with iterative preliminary draft reviews
 available prior to its
 release.
 
 
 
 ##########
 
 About the TrustTheVote Project and the OSDV Foundation:
 
 The Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
 non-profit public
 benefits organization dedicated to sustaining development efforts to
 create freely
 available, open source technology for use in managing elections and
 conducting voting
 in the U.S. The Foundation's flagship effort is the TrustTheVote
 Project - a digital public
 works project, creating freely available open source elections
 technology maintained in a
 public trust to ensure free access and transparency. The design
 process relies on a
 collaboration of States' elections officials consorting in a growing
 stakeholder community
 to review and comment on all design specifications. The project work
 is conducted by a
 small team of highly experienced technology architects, supported by a
 volunteer
 community of developers, voting technology experts, and policy
 specialists.
 
 www.TrustTheVote.org
 
 
 About the Overseas Vote Foundation:
 
 Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) helps overseas and military voters
 participate in
 federal elections by providing public access to secure, web-based
 voter registration tools
 and services. In 2008, 4.75 million visitors utilized OVF's
 Internet-based voter services.
 OVF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan public charity incorporated
 in Delaware.
 
 www.overseasvotefoundation.org
 
 Contacts:
 Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat: 202.230.2532, susan (at)
 overseasvotefoundation (dot) org
 Matt Douglass: 970.570.0162, mdouglass (at) osdv (dot) org
 
 
 -- 
 Joseph Lorenzo Hall
 ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
 UC Berkeley School of Information
 Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
 http://josephhall.org/
 
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