BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200921T181328Z UID:575E5EC7-74AF-49AE-8790-9A21ECBE9302 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20200915T113000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20200915T134500 DESCRIPTION:This Zoom meeting will focus on\n\nVoting in a Pandemic: Naviga ting the 2020 Election will be held ONLINE using Zoom.\n\nThe meeting star ts at 11:30 AM EST and typically ends at 1:45 pm. The meeting is meant to discuss absentee voting in the United States.\n\nEveryone is welcome to at tend this meeting.\n\nPlease register in advance for this meeting using VT OOLS. You can change/cancel the registration if your plans change.\n\nFor more information\, please contact Michael Miller millerm@ieee.org\n\nZoom meeting information:\nNorth Jersey Section Life Member Group is inviting y ou to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n\nTopic: Voting in a Pandemic: Navigating the 2020 Election\n\nTime: September 15\, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\n*** Join Zoom Meeting ***\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/535997 7423\n\nMeeting ID: 535 997 7423 Password: 289697\n\nSpeaker(s): Rebecca M ercuri \, \n\nAgenda: \nThe year 2020 has loomed as a critical one for ele ctions in the USA. States received $380M in federal funding to make electi on security improvements\, including the replacement of vulnerable voting equipment that provided no way to confirm that ballots were accurately rec orded or counted. Now\, with COVID-19 in the mix\, many municipalities are expanding access to absentee voting for the November general election. Ye t\, these paper ballots are still vulnerable to age-old forms of fraud and tampering\, and they do not include end-to-end tracking\, or the simple a nd inexpensive security features that are applied to cheques\, lottery tic kets\, dollar bills and prescription scripts. In this talk\, Dr. Mercuri w ill describe some of the problematic issues that should be anticipated thi s Fall\, along with suggestions for the implementation of risk mitigations \, while there is still time to put these into place.\n\nBldg: Zoom\, Inte renet Online\, New Jersey\, United States\, 00000\, Virtual: https://event s.vtools.ieee.org/m/237348 LOCATION:Bldg: Zoom\, Interenet Online\, New Jersey\, United States\, 00000 \, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/237348 ORGANIZER:millerm@ieee.org SEQUENCE:11 SUMMARY:Voting in a Pandemic: Navigating the 2020 Election - Zoom - NNJ Sec tion - LM Group URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/237348 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p align="justify">This Zoom meeting will foc us on</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 14pt\;"><strong>Voting in a Pandemic : Navigating the 2020 Election</strong></span> will be held ONLINE using Z oom.</p>\n<p align="justify">The meeting starts at 11:30 AM EST and typica lly ends at 1:45 pm. The meeting is meant to discuss absentee voting in th e United States.</p>\n<p align="justify">Everyone is welcome to attend thi s meeting.</p>\n<p align="justify">Please register in advance for this mee ting using VTOOLS. You can change/cancel the registration if your plans ch ange.</p>\n<p align="justify">For more information\, please contact&nbsp\; Michael Miller millerm@ieee.org</p>\n<p align="justify">Zoom meeting infor mation:<br />North Jersey Section Life Member Group is inviting you to a s cheduled Zoom meeting.<br /><br />Topic:&nbsp\;Voting in a Pandemic: Navig ating the 2020 Election</p>\n<p align="justify"><br />Time: September 15\, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)<br /><br />*** Join Zoom Meeti ng ***<br /><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5359977423">https://us02web .zoom.us/j/5359977423</a><br /><br />Meeting ID: 535 997 7423&nbsp\; Passw ord: 289697</p>\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n<p align="justify ">&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>The year 2020 has loomed as a cr itical one for elections in the USA. States received $380M in federal fund ing to make election security improvements\, including the replacement of vulnerable voting equipment that provided no way to confirm that ballots w ere accurately recorded or counted. Now\, with COVID-19 in the mix\, many municipalities are expanding access to absentee voting for the November ge neral election. Yet\, these paper ballots are still vulnerable to age-old forms of fraud and tampering\, and they do not include end-to-end tracking \, or the simple and inexpensive security features that are applied to che ques\, lottery tickets\, dollar bills and prescription scripts. In this ta lk\, Dr. Mercuri will describe some of the problematic issues that should be anticipated this Fall\, along with suggestions for the implementation o f risk mitigations\, while there is still time to put these into place.</p > END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR