Dana DeBeauvoir, MA Biography
- Title:
- County Clerk of Travis County, TX
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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“In my role as Elections Administrator for Travis County, I am asked questions about electronic voting in response to stories that have surfaced in the news and on the Internet…The [electronic] voting system we use today is more accurate and tamper proof than any other voting method we have employed in the past.”
Testimony before U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- County Clerk, Travis County, Texas
- Texas representative on federal Election Assistance Commission Standards Board
- Serves on Elections Security Sub-committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Best Practices Award, The Election Center, 2005
- Testified before U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), 2004
- Distinguished Public Service Award, LBJ School of Public Affairs Alumni Association, 2002
- Official election observer in Bosnia on behalf of the International Foundation of Election Systems and the United Nations, 1996
- Official election observer in South Africa on behalf of the International Foundation of Election Systems and the United Nations, 1994
- Education:
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- MA, Public Affairs, University of Texas, 1981
- Other:
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- None found
- Quoted in:
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- Are Electronic Voting Systems Vulnerable to Hacking?
- Are There Sufficient Procedures in Place to Guard against Physical Tampering with Electronic Voting Machines?
- Is There an Effective Method in Place to Assure the Accuracy of Ballot Definition Files?
- Is Transmitting Votes from Individual Polling Stations to the Central Tabulation Center a Secure Process?
- What Are the Stages of Testing Electronic Voting Machines?
- Is Logic and Accuracy Testing an Effective Method of Assuring That Electronic Voting Machines Are Operating Properly before an Election?