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==Voting technology policy== After leaving IBM and serving as ACM president, Simons began working to reverse the dangers of using unverifiable technology in voting. In 2001 she participated in the National Workshop on Internet Voting under President Clinton, where she helped produce a report on Internet voting. She subsequently served on the President's Export Council's Subcommittee on Encryption, as well as on the Information Technology-Sector of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion.<ref name=":3" /> Barbara held one of her first public outcries of unverifiable voting technology in 2003 because election officials in Silicon Valley wanted to switch to paperless machines. Now, Barbara serves as a board chair at Verified Voting.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|date=2018-05-09|title=Barbara Simons: Making votes count|url=https://engineering.berkeley.edu/barbara-simons-making-votes-count/|access-date=2020-09-14|website=Berkeley Engineering|language=en-US}}</ref> She also co-chaired the ACM study of statewide databases of registered voters alongside [[Paula Hawthorn]].<ref name=":0" /> She participated on the Security Peer Review Group for the US [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]βs Internet voting project (SERVE) and co-authored the report that led to the cancellation of SERVE because of security concerns 2004.<ref>David Jefferson, [[Avi Rubin|Aviel D. Rubin]], Barbara Simons and [[David A. Wagner|David Wagner]], [http://servesecurityreport.org/paper.pdf A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104101113/http://www.servesecurityreport.org/paper.pdf |date=2011-11-04 }}, Jan. 20, 2004.</ref><ref>Press Release, [Pentagon Decides Against Internet Voting {{cite web|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/id/27362/|title=Defense.gov News Article: Pentagon Decides Against Internet Voting This Year|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414162133/http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=27362|archive-date=2012-04-14|url-status=live|access-date=2012-01-04}}], American Forces Press Service, Feb. 6, 2004.</ref><ref name=":4" /> In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Verified Voting Foundation, Simons has worked for legislation to remove paperless voting machines and published various work about it. She played a key role in changing the [[League of Women Voters]] support and use of paperless voting.<ref name=":1">[[Ronnie Dugger]], "How They Could Steal the Election This Time", ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'', p.13 August 16/23, 2004</ref> Initially the League had seen electronic voting as better for disabled people, then endorsed [[voting machines]] that are "[[recount]]able" after Simons.<ref name=":1" /> In 2008 she was appointed by [[Harry Reid|Senator Harry Reid]] to the [[Election Assistance Commission|U.S Election Assistance Commission]] Board of Advisors, where she contributed to "[[Help America Vote Act]]" (HAVA).<ref name=":4" /> In 2009 she co-authored the League of Women Voters report on election auditing.<ref>Election Audits Task Force, [http://verifiedvoting.org/downloads/Report_ElectionAudits.pdf Report on Election Auditing], League of Women Voters of the United States, Jan. 2009.</ref> With fellow computer scientist [[Douglas W. Jones|Douglas Jones]], she co-authored a book about electronic voting machines in 2012, titled ''Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?''.<ref>Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons, [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo13383590.html Broken Ballots], [[Stanford University Centers and Institutes#Center for the Study of Language and Information|Center for the Study of Language and Information]] / University of Chicago Press, 2012. See also [http://brokenballots.com]</ref><ref name=":4" /> Following this, in July 2015 she published another report about electronic voting for the [[U.S. Vote Foundation]] entitled ''The Future of Voting: End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting''.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-10-11 |title=Berkeley Talks transcript: Barbara Simons on election hacking and how to avoid it in 2020 |url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/11/berkeley-talks-transcript-barbara-simons-election-hacking/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=Berkeley News |language=en}}</ref>
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