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TGDC Members

Members include representatives from the EAC Standards Board, EAC Board of Advisors, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, American National Standards Institute, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The National Association of State Election Directors (two representatives), and other individuals with technical and scientific expertise related to voting systems and voting equipment. 

The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) specifies the organizational membership of the TGDC, as follows:

The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves as chair
2 members of the EAC Standards Board
2 members of the EAC Board of Advisors
2 members of the Architectural and Transportation Barrier, and Compliance Board (Access Board)
A representative of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
A representative of the (IEEE)
2 representatives of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED)
4 individuals with technical and scientific expertise relating to voting systems and voting equipment.

The individuals comprising the TGDC are as follows: 

Chair
Patrick D. Gallagher
Deputy Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, MD

EAC Standards Board - 2

Russ Ragsdale
City Clerk and Recorder
Broomfield, CO

VACANT
EAC Standards Board Member

EAC Board of Advisors - 2

Helen Purcell
Maricopa County Recorder
Phoenix, AZ

Linda Lamone
Administrator of Elections
Maryland State Board of Elections
Annapolis, MD

Architectural and Transportation Barrier Compliance Board (Access Board) - 2

Ronald Gardner
Director of Field Services, National Federation of the Blind
Bountiful, Utah

Neil Melick, CBO
Director, Construction Services Department of the City of West Palm Beach, FL
West Palm Beach, FL

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - 1

Dr. David Wagner
Professor, University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - 1

Cem Kaner
Professor of Software Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology
Palm Bay, FL

National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) - 2

Dr. Brittain Williams
Retired professor- Kennesaw State- University of Georgia
Tucker, GA

Paul Miller
Voting Systems Manager, Washington State
Olympia, WA

Other individuals with technical and scientific expertise

Patrick Gannon
President and CEO,
OASIS
Billerica, MA

Whitney Quesenbery
President-Usability Professionals' Association
High Bridge, NJ

Dr. Ronald Rivest
Professor, MIT-Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cambridge, MA

Dr. Daniel Schutzer
Director and SVP, Enterprise Technology Office
CitiGroup
New York, NY