Start Time
Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00 AM
End Time
Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00 AM
DRAFT Agenda - Subject to change and approval
Thursday, April 11, 2019
7:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
Hernando Desoto Room (Mezzanine Level)
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration
Outside the Entrance to the Continental Ballroom (Mezzanine Level)
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Meeting takes place in Continental Ballroom (Mezzanine Level)
Call to Order
Greg Riddlemoser, Chairman, EAC Standards Board
Welcome to Memphis!
Commissioner Donald Palmer
Designated Federal Officer, EAC Standards Board
Secretary Tre Hargett (video message)
Tennessee Secretary of State
Senators Marsha Blackburn (video message)
United States Senator, Tennessee
Pledge of Allegiance
Commissioner Donald Palmer, EAC, Standards Board DFO
Roll Call
Secretary Reynaldo A. Valenzuela, EAC Standards Board
Oath of Office
Commissioner Donald Palmer, EAC, Standards Board DFO
Determination of Quorum
Greg Riddlemoser, Chairman, EAC Standards Board
Welcome Remarks from the Commissioners
Chairwoman Christy McCormick, EAC
Vice Chair Benjamin Hovland, EAC
Commissioner Donald Palmer, EAC, DFO
Commissioner Thomas Hicks, EAC
9:30 - 9:50 a.m. Introductory Business
Approval of Minutes of April 11-12, 2018 Meeting
Packet Material Review
Standards Board Election Ballot Instructions
Overview of Committees
9:50 - 10:00 a.m. FACA Responsibilities and role of Board under HAVA
Clifford D. Tatum, General Counsel, EAC
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. ODNI Unclassified Intel Briefing for Election Officials
Joe Morosco, Assistant Director, Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI), Manager for Counterintelligence, National
Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC)
Spencer Fisher, Chief Counsel, National Counterintelligence
and Security Center, ODNI
Geoff Hale, Cybersecurity Strategy and Integration Program Manager,
Department of Homeland Security (invited)
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break
Beverages & Snacks Provided in the Continental Ballroom
11:00 a.m. - Noon EAC Update
Executive Director Brian D. Newby
Noon – 1:45 p.m. Lunch
Skyway Ballroom
Luncheon Keynote
Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Lunch Panel - Disaster Management & Recovery
Roberto Benitez, CIO, Puerto Rico Elections Commission
Candace Grubbs, Butte County, California, Clerk/Recorder & Registrar of Voters
Maria Matthews, Division Director of Elections,
Florida Department of State
1:45 - 4:45 p.m. VVSG & Requirements; Consideration of Resolution
Continental Ballroom
Greg Riddlemoser, VVSG Committee
NIST Manager Mary Brady
Brian Newby, Executive Director, EAC
Testing & Certification Staff, EAC
4:45 - 5:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Announcements & Business
5:00 p.m. Dinner on Your Own
7:30 p.m. Executive Board Meeting
Exeter Room
Approval of past minutes
Committee reports
Election of Officers
Review of member interest surveys
Review of committee members
Friday, April 12, 2019
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
Hernando Desoto Room (Mezzanine Level)
8:00 - 8:15 a.m. Housekeeping
Continental Ballroom (Mezzanine Level)
Announcement of Officers
Committee Assignments
8:15 - 9:15 a.m. EAVS
Nichelle Williams and David Kuennen, Research, EAC
Michelle M. Shafer, Election Technology Communications and Research Consultant
9:15 – 10-:00 a.m. Department of Justice - Election Offenses
Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Committee Meeting Breakouts
VVSG – Galaxie Room (3rd Floor)
Clearinghouse – Fortuna Room (3rd Floor)
EAVS – International Room (3rd Floor)
USPS – Devonshire Room (3rd Floor)
Bylaws – Continental Ballroom
Cybersecurity - Exeter Room (3rd Floor)
11:00-11:30 a.m. Committee Reports
Continental Ballroom
11:30-11:45 a.m. Any Remaining Announcements or Business
Motion to Adjourn
11:45 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch “To Go”
Outside Continental Ballroom
12:30 p.m. Leave for the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
Those participating in the optional training should convene in the hotel lobby no
later than 12:30 p.m. to walk to the National Civil Rights Museum
at the Lorraine Motel (approximately .6 miles)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. The Voting Rights Act: Optional Training at the National Civil Rights
Museum at the Lorraine Motel
Hooks Hyde Hall
Training Presentation by Commissioner Donald Palmer
Remarks by Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division, U.S. Department of Justice
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Optional Museum Tour
Participants Interested in touring the National Civil Rights Museum
may do so following the luncheon.