Richard C. Balough, Associate Director, Center for Information Tecnology and Privacy Law, The John Marshall Law School. Mr. Balough has written numerous articles on privacy and Internet law. He also practices in Internet law , privacy law and libel law. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Balough worked as a journalist. He received a B.A. degree from Indiana University and his J.D. from the John Marshall Law School. He also received an LLM in Intellectual Property Law cum laude and an LLM in Information Technology Law cum laude from the John Marshall Law School. For more information on Mr. Balough: www.balough.com.

Richard Barnett , Chicago activitist.

Ann Bartow, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. Professor Bartow has written numerous articles on copyright and free speech. She has a B.S. from Cornell University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University School of Law. For more information on Professor Bartow: http://www.law.sc.edu/bartow/cv.htm.

Doug Chapin, Director of electionline.org. Mr. Chapin will present an overview of the issues surrounding e-voting and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) that was passed after the 2000 election. He will give a summary of how prepared the states are for the upcoming vote. Electionline.org is administered by the Election Reform Information Project, a nonpartisan, non-advocacy group funded in part by Pew Charitable Trusts through the University of Richmond. Mr. Chapin is an attorney and has served as Democratic Elections Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Rules and Administration. He has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center as well as a M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. For more info on electionline.org: http://www.electionline.org.

Lillie Coney, Senior Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Ms. Coney serves as the coordinator of the National Committee on Voting Integrity, which was created in 2003 in response to concerns about the reliability of electronic voting systems. It is a non-partisan organization made up of leading technical experts, lawyers, journalists and citizens. She is the former Public Policy Coordinator for the Association of Computing Machinery, the nation’s leading professional association for computer scientists. She served as special assistant to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex). She has a B.A. and an M.P.A. from Lamar University. For more information on EPIC: www.epic.org.

Linda R. Crane, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor, The John Marshall Law School. Dean Crane is well versed in elections and election law. She has served as the Election Day Election Central Attorney since 1995 to the present and a Hearings Examiner for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners since 2003. From 1996 to 1998, she served as president of Legal Elections in All Precincts Education & Research Fund, Inc. (Project LEAP), was a member of the board of LEAP from 1990 to 2003, and a member of LEAP since 1985. She received her BA from the University of Illinois in political science and economics in 1977. In 1981 she received a JD from Northwestern University School of Law and a Masters of Management at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management..

Jane E. Kirtley, Director of the Silha Center of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism for the University of Minnesota. Professor Kirtley is the former Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She received her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law. She has B.A. and M.S. degrees from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. She speaks frequently on First Amendment and freedom of information issues both in the United States and abroad. She writes the “First Amendment Watch” column each month for the American Journalism Review. For more information on Professor Kirtley: http://www.silha.umn.edu/jane.htm

Michael E. Lavelle, Partner with the firm of Lavelle & Motta, Ltd. in Chicago where he concentrates his practice in election and general law. Mr. Lavelle is a former Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Elections and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. He is a former President of the Illinois Association of Election Commission Officials and was a consultant to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and the Electoral Process. Mr. Lavelle is a frequent lecturer and author in various aspects of election law. Mr. Lavelle did his undergraduate work at Loyola University of Chicago and earned his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.

Doris Estelle Long, Professor at The John Marshall Law School where she teaches diverse courses in the area of intellectual property, including intellectual property in the global digital environment, international IP and globalization, intellectual property and the internet. Professor Long is a frequent lecturer in the areas of intellectual property law, e-commerce and technology law both in the U.S. and abroad and is the author of numerous books and articles in the area. She received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Ithaca College and her J.D. (cum laude) from Cornell Law School. Prior to joining John Marshall, she was an attorney for over 14 years with the Washington D.C. law firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn and Howrey and Simon, where she specialized in the areas of intellectual property and computer law.

Richard K. Means, Chicago attorney specializing in election contests. Mr. Means is a founder of Project LEAP and the Public Access Project, a civic organization/public interest law firm that promotes democracy in Illinois by securing and publishing on the World Wide Web, public documents and other public records important to the electorate’s understanding of current issues. He is the past state Chair of the Independent Voters of Illinois, current and past Chair of the Election Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and the former Executive Director of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. He has a B.S. degree from Eastern New Mexico University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow in post-graduate studies in criminal and civil rights law at Northwestern University School of Law. For more information on Mr. Means: http://www.richardmeans.com.

David Orr , Cook County Clerk. The Cook County Clerk serves as the chief election authority for the county, the third largest election jurisdiction in the country.

Lida Rodriguez-Taseff , counsel and Chair of the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition. The Coalition is a non-partisan grass-roots organization dedicated to election reform. Ms. Rodriguez-Taseffpractices in the area of commercial litigation for Duane Morris in Miami, Florida, with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes, contract litigation, real estate litigation (including commercial lease disputes and foreclosures), class action litigation, and copyright and trademark infringement litigation. She is admitted to practice in Florida and New York and is a 1992 graduate of the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and a recipient of the Vanderbilt Medal, the highest honor bestowed by NYU. She is a graduate of the University of Miami and she is fully fluent in written and spoken Spanish. Ms. Rodriguez-Taseff appears weekly on CNN's Saturday morning segment, Legal Briefs, and is the national Spanish media spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union. From 2001 to 2003, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union's Greater Miami Chapter.

Leslie Ann Reis , Director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law and Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School. Professor Reis teaches courses on information law and policy. Prior to becoming an attorney, Professor Reis worked for more than 15 years as a broadcast journalist. She received a B.S. degree cum laude from Syracuse University and her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.

James M. Scanlon , Principal in the firm James M. Scanlon & Associates, P.C., and an attorney in Chicago, Illinois whose practice concentrates in the areas of government law, election law and real estate taxation. Mr. Scanlon has served as outside General Counsel to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners since 1993, advising the Board on all legal matters and representing the Board in federal and state court litigation, including numerous discovery recounts and election contests. He also served as General Counsel to the Illinois State Board of Elections from 1980 to 1985. Mr. Scanlon formerly served as General Counsel and Chief Deputy to the Cook County Assessor, as an Assistant Attorney for the Chicago Board of Education and as a Special Assistant Illinois Attorney General in condemnation matters. He is a former Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association’s Election Law Committee and has authored several articles for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education on Illinois election law. Mr. Scanlon received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He is a member the bars of the State of Illinois, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Trial Bar for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Wendy Seltzer, Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializes in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, she founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to joining EFF, Ms. Seltzer taught Internet Law as an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York. She speaks frequently on copyrights, trademarks, open source and the public interest online. She has an A.B. degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. For more information on EFF: http://www.eff.org.

Dr. Michael I. Shamos is Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1980-2000 he was Statutory Examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania and Texas, during which he performed over 100 voting system certification exams. Over 11% of the popular vote of the United States in the 2000 election was cast on equipment personally examined by Dr. Shamos. He has an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University, an M.A. in Physics from Vassar College, M.S. degrees from American University in Technology of Management and Yale University in Computers Science, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Duquesne University. He is a member of the bar of Pennsylvania and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. For more information on Dr. Shamos: http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/faculty/mshamos/resshort.htm.

David E. Sorkin, Associate Professor at The John Marshall Law School who teaches courses on cyberspace law and privacy. Professor Sorkin has written and spoken widely about Internet policy, privacy, consumer protection issues and communications. He received his B.A. with distinction from Indiana University, a B.S. in Business with high distinction from Indiana University, an M.L.S. from Indiana University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard University.

Dr. Eugene Spafford, Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University and Executive Director of Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. Dr. Spafford’s primary interests are in the areas of information security, computer crime investigation and information ethics. He has a B.A. degree with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the State University College at Brockport. He has an M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also received his Ph.D. For more information on Dr. Spafford: http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homnes/spaf.

Joe Tasker, Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs and General Counsel of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). He was Associate General Counsel and Vice President for Worldwide Government Affairs for 10 years at Compaq Computer Corporation. Prior to joining Compaq, he was a Partner in a law firm in Washington, DC where he practiced international trade, antitrust and intellectual property law. He started his legal career in 1975 as a Merger Trial Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission’s bureau of Competition and as a member of the Competition Bureau Director’s policy staff. He has a JD from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma. He has lectured at the Kennedy School of Government on international trade in information, the International Law Institute and the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service. For more information on ITTA: http://www.itaa.org.

Dr. Dan Wallach, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Rice University. He is interested in computer security and the issues of building secure software systems for the Internet. Dr. Wallach was one of the researchers and authors of the study that found critical flaws in the computer code for electronic voting systems, commonly referred to as the Johns Hopkins study. He is one of the founding members of Princeton’s Secure Internet Programming Laboratory, which was responsible for identifying and publicizing a number of flaws in commercial Java implementations. His current research interests focus on the security of Java environments and issues relating to the secure execution of untrusted mobile codes. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley; he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. For more information on Dr. Wallach: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/.

Daniel W. White, Executive Director, Illinois State Board of Elections. Co-author of the Help America Vote Act Illinois State Plan.