Voting Systems Trade Fair

Sponsored by HAVA State Plan Committee and the

Disabilities Access and Voting Systems Task Force

I. Date & time:          April 15, 2003

                                    9 AM – 4 PM

II. Location:               Room 306 & 308

Legislative Office Building

III. Attendance:

Executive Branch

Governor Craig Benson

Legislative Branch:

Rep. Gene Chandler, Carroll-4, Speaker of the House

Rep. Michael Whalley, Belknap-31, Deputy Speaker of the House

Rep. Howard C. Dickinson, Carroll-4, Vice Chair, Election Law Committee

Rep. Richard Drisco, Hillsborough – 46, Election Law Committee

Rep. Dennis Fields, Hillsborough-58, State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Committee; Resources and Recreation Committee

Rep. G. Michael Gilman, Grafton-1, (Chair, Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services)

Rep. Richard E. Kennedy, Merrimack-34, Election Law Committee

Rep. John Pratt, Cheshire-24, Judiciary Committee

Rep. Peter Solomon, Grafton-17, Fish and Game

Ballot Law Commission: 

Governor Hugh Gregg

HAVA State Plan Committee & Disabilities Access and Voting Systems Task Force participants: William Armstrong (Division of Information Technology Management, NH Department of Administrative Services); Denise Bonenfant (Concord City Clerk); Ross Doerr (NH Association for the Blind); Christine Dupre (Candia Town Clerk, Legislative Committee, NH Association of City and Town Clerks); Orville “Bud” Fitch (Department of Justice); William M. Gardner (Secretary of State); Christine Hanisco (Disabilities Rights Center – NH );Linda Jette (Atkinson Town Clerk, Member, Executive Committee, NH Association of City and Town Clerks); Cheryl Killam (Access Specialist, Governor’s Commission on Disability); Karen Ladd (Department of State); Thomas Manning (Department of State); Carol Nadeau (Director, Governor’s Commission on Disability); Tricia Piecuch (Manchester City Clerk’s Office); David Scanlan ( Deputy Secretary of State); Anthony Stevens (Assistant Secretary of State); Rep. C. Donald Stritch (Auburn, Moderator, Chair, House Elections Committee, Member Standards Board, Federal Election Assistance Commission); Clyde Terry (Granite State Independent Living); Peter Thomson (Town Moderator, Orford); Michelle Tiffany (Concord Deputy City Clerk); Charity Ross (House Democratic Leaders Office); Terry Voth (Granite State Independent Living);

Other attendees (partial listing):

Suzanne Bousquet (Case Advocate Disabilities Rights Center – NH); Colleen Cronin (Staff Attorney, Disabilities Rights Center – NH); Russell Koppang (Concord Ward 4 Clerk); Wendy Paget (Staff Attorney Disabilities Rights Center – NH); Malcolm Richards (Concord Ward 4 Moderator); Henry Wilson (Concord, Ward 8 Moderator, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms) Donna Woodfin (Program Development. Disabilities Rights Center – NH.)

Vendors Demonstrating Products

AccuPoll                                              Touch screen product: AccuPoll

Irvine, CA

Frank Wiebe, President

Chet Noblett, VP-Sales

Jo-Ann Zakielarz, Sales

Avante International Technology           Touch screen product:  Vote Trakker

Princeton, New Jersey

Kevin Chung, Ph.D, President

Tony Bandiero, Sales

Bruce Perlo, President, BMSI

Diebold/LHS                                        Touch screen product: Accuvote –TS

McKinney, Texas

John Sylvestro, President, LHS

Election Systems & Software                Touch screen product: iVotronic

Omaha, Nebraska

            John Oldham, Sales

Encrypted Voting Machine Systems

Lexington, MA

Susan Eustis, President

Sequoia                                                Touch screen product: AVC Edge

Elk Grove, CA

Berkly Trumbo, Systems Sales Executive

Paul Terwilliger, Developer

TruVote International

Nashville, Tennessee

Charles French, Sales Director

Organizations Demonstrating Products:

New Hampshire Federation for the Blind           Products: Lighting for polling booths

Ross A. Doerr, Esq., Technology Consultant

            Kimberly Stumph, COMT, CLVT