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He was a consultant to the FEC during the development of the FEC Voting System Standards in 1990 and again in 2002. He is currently a member of the NASED Voting Systems Board and Chair of the NASED Voting Systems Board Technical Committee. He serves as a consultant to the states of Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, where he has certified electronic voting systems. In 2003, he wrote a defense of the Georgia electronic voting system in response to criticism of Diebold Election Systems (DES) systems levied by Bev Harris , author of Black Box Voting . The Williams defense of Georgia procedures provides the only biographical information about him available on the Net. {Link without Title} Williams appeared at a United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Public Hearing on the Use, Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems in Washington, DC on 5 May 2004. Other technology panelists included Dr. Avi Rubin , Johns Hopkins University , Information Security Institute ; Stephen Berger , IEEE ; and Dr. Ted Selker , MIT . The EAC is providing $2.3 billion dollars in grants to States for upgrading Election equipment. CONTROVERSY Williams is positioned as a recognized expert on electronic voting systems; he is a consulant to DES, the FEC, and four states. However, there is no publicly available information about his education/degrees, courses taught at Kennesaw or positions held. Williams reportedly has held a key position at the IEEE . {Link without Title} NASED is the National Association of Election Directors; these are high level government employees. NASED is not an association of computing professionals. Kennesaw State University began life as a junior (community) college in 1963; it became a university in 1996. It is not an established research institution in computer security. Williams does not appear as an author of any paper - technical or otherwise - in a search of , moderator of that forum, published "Security Criteria for Electronic Voting" in 1993 at the 16th National Computer Security Conference. {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS
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