Iowa State Election Education Conference.

April 19th, 2006, 6:25 pm Josh Houghtelin Vote

I just participated in an educational conference in Iowa where the state pulled together most every County reguardless of the hardware they were using to better educate everyone on what all the new laws are as well as help clean up some of the new laws and rules before they go into effect. I definately have to say that Iowa is doing an extremely good job about keeping their ducks in a row. They have very stringent rules and security policies for the use of this new election equipment. They also have very details rules and requirements for all the different election equipment provided by different vendors. They seem to be doing a very good job at organizing the overhwhelming amounts of information revolving around the entire election process.

I was absolutely loving the general attitude of people there. Being one of the only knowledgable technitions on site I was doing a lot of correcting & fact checking on the key notes that were being presented as well as providing a lot of live demonstrations of the voting equipment and technology used in conjunction with the voting equipment. I like nothing more than teaching people about this election stuff. ESPECIALY when they enjoy learning about it! I love it!