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VVSG Public Working Group (PWG) Lists
READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting
VVSG Public Working Group (PWG) Information
There are 3 election cycle working groups which were created to address considerations related to pre-election, election-day, and post-election activities. In addition, there are 4 constituency working groups created to address considerations related to cybersecurity, human factors, interoperability, and testing properties of election technologies and processes.
In addition to these primary working groups, there are a number of sub-groups which have been formed to work on interoperability-specific activities, some of which have their own mailing lists.
Working Group Lists
VVSG public working group mailing lists (hosted on Google Groups):
| List Name | List Email Address | List Google Group URL |
| vvsg-pre-election | vvsg-pre-election [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-pre-election[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-pre-election |
| vvsg-election | vvsg-election [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-election[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-election |
| vvsg-post-election | vvsg-post-election [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-post-election[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-post-election |
| vvsg-cybersecurity | vvsg-cybersecurity [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-cybersecurity[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-cybersecurity |
| vvsg-human-factors | vvsg-human-factors [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-human-factors[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-human-factors |
| vvsg-testing | vvsg-testing [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-testing[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-testing |
| vvsg-interoperability | vvsg-interoperability [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-interoperability[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-interoperability |
Interoperability subgroup mailing lists specific to the Common Data Format (CDF) development are:
| List Name | List Email Address | List Google Group URL |
| vvsg-cvr | vvsg-cvr [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-cvr[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/vvsg-cvr |
| vvsg-ovr | ovr [at] list.nist.gov (ovr[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/ovr |
| voting-methods | voting-methods [at] list.nist.gov (voting-methods[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/voting-methods |
| election-modeling | election-modeling [at] list.nist.gov (election-modeling[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) | https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/election-modeling |
Membership Information
Participation in this Working Group is open to all interested parties. There are no membership fees.
Working Group Usage
Google Groups Hosting
The working groups use Google Groups for managing the email lists. If you have a Gmail address or Google account, you can join a group and post to the mailing list and access the email archives; non-Google users can still post and access the email archives but to join, you must send an email to the group administrator. A Google account permits you to continue using your non-Gmail address but signs you in to Google; for information on how to obtain a Gmail address or Google account, please see https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail .
How to Join a Group or Manage your Membership in a Group
If you do not have a Gmail address or Google account, please send an email to the following address and include your name and preferred email address(es) and which group(s) you wish to join:
voting [at] nist.gov (voting[at]nist[dot]gov)
If you do have a Gmail address or Google account:
- Go to the following URL: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov
- Click on the “Browse all” button to find groups to join, and click on the name of each group you wish to join.
- Click on the “Join group to post” button and set up your email account preferences. You’re done!
Here is a useful article with further information about Google groups:
https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/groups/get-started
How to Read a Group’s Email Archives
Google and non-Google users can read a group’s email archives. Do the following:
- Go to the following URL: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov
- Click on the “Browse all” button to find the group whose archive you wish to access.
- Click on the name of the group.
Working Group Mailing List Policies
- No Proprietary Information Exchanged
- Standing Rules
- Etiquette
Voting TWiki Archive (2015-2020): read-only, archived wiki site, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
ARCHIVE SITE DESCRIPTION AND DISCLAIMER
This page, and related pages, represent archived materials (pages, documents, links, and content) that were produced and/or provided by members of public working groups engaged in collaborative activities to support the development of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0. These TWiki activities began in 2015 and continued until early 2020. During that time period, this content was hosted on a Voting TWiki site. That TWiki site was decommissioned in 2020 due to technology migration needs. The TWiki activities that generated this content ceased to operate actively through the TWiki at the time the draft VVSG 2.0 was released, in February of 2020. The historical pages and documents produced there have been archived now in read-only, static form.
- The archived materials of this TWiki (including pages, documents, links, content) are provided for historical purposes only.
- They are not actively maintained.
- They are provided "as is" as a public service.
- They represent the "work in progress" efforts of a community of volunteer members of public working groups collaborating from late 2015 to February of 2020.
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