Events

 The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) will hold two Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Virtual Working Sessions on July 30 and August 8. During these sessions, the TGDC members will discuss the proposed changes to the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.1. Staff from the EAC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be available for technical questions and support. The working sessions will be live streamed on the agency’s YouTube Channel.

These working sessions will build on the discussion from the July 2 meeting of the TGDC. A recording of this meeting is available on the EAC’s YouTube Channel.

The TGDC is composed of 14 members jointly appointed by the EAC and the NIST. The committee, which the director of NIST chairs, was established to assist the EAC in developing VVSG in accordance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

Information about how to watch the livestreams will be made available on the event pages for each working session:

• August 8, 2025 Working Session #2

How can mail ballots be verified more quickly and accurately? What practices can help prevent avoidable ballot rejections? How can ballot tabulation be made safer (and quieter) for election workers? Please join The Elections Group for “Mail Ballots: Faster Verification, Better Processes and Safer Tabulation,” the latest webinar in this summer’s Books & Ballots series. During the webinar, researchers from the Engineering for Democracy Institute, King County (WA), US Digital Response, the University of Southern California, and the University of Pennsylvania will explore these questions and more as they present and discuss how their recent work can help election officials administer mail ballots. This webinar is part of the Books and Ballots series, a partnership with the Center for Election Innovation and Research, The Elections Group, and Arizona State University’s Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory.

12pm Eastern