Re: votingtech A PROJECT TO ASSESS VOTING

NSF has done a lot of voting grants.

I discussed the project with Bederson some months ago. His project focuses
on usability issues.

The larger study we are going for is described here.
http://home.earthlink.net/~adechert/ucvs-proposal.rtf

Please read it.

It's not quite done -- the budget especially needs work.

Alan Dechert

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mertz" <voting-project@gnosis.cx>
To: <voting-project@lists.sonic.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: [voting-project] votingtech A PROJECT TO ASSESS VOTING

> Dennis Paull <dpaull@svpal.org> wrote:
> |For those not on the votingtech list (Caltech/MIT), here is an
> |announcement of an interesting research project (NSF Funded).
>
> Is this good or bad for us? Herrnson, et alia, are not doing precisely
> the same thing that we want to apply to NSF about, but there are areas
> of overlap.
>
> Do folks who know about NSF grants think this means that: (a) NSF has
> "already done that voting grant"; (b) There is a lot of interest at NSF
> in funding voting research; (c) something else?
>
> I suppose this question is mostly to Arthur, but others might opine too.
>
> Yours, David...
>
>
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