Reply #50: Connections between Rubin and Andrew Neff of VoteHere

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C. Andrew Neff is VoteHere's chief scientist -- formerly with IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, then with a company called Stratasys, then with Ioptics.

Rubin and Neff appear as co-authors on a paper published in 2001:

Ed Gerck, C. Andrew Neff, Ronald L. Rivest, Aviel D. Rubin, Moti Yung: The Business of Electronic Voting. Financial Cryptography 2001: 243-268

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/n/Neff:C=_Andrew.html

It looks like this may be part of the proceedings of a conference on Financial Cryptography held in 2001, where these same five people were on a panel with the same title.

http://www.ifca.ai/fc01/schedule.php
http://www.ieee-security.org/Cipher/ConfReports/2001/CR2001-FC2001.html

I'm getting the impression that the electronic voting field is a small and specialized one, where everybody knows each other, and there may be no actual outside parties.