M.S. Mathematics, Executive Director, National Election Data Archive, UT

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Election Analysis and Integrity

Bio
Kathy Dopp founded the National Election Data Archive; derived a new mathematical function to allow exit poll discrepancies to be evaluated for consistency with vote miscount or exit poll response bias; and mathematically proved that all attempts to dismiss the exit poll evidence of vote miscount in the 2004 presidential election were incorrect. Dopp's analyses of the 2004 presidential election results, with other statistician volunteers, were cited by the Senior Judiciary Committee Democrats John Conyers, Jerrold Nadler and Robert Wexler, who were seeking a Government Accountability Office investigation into the 2004 presidential election, and were cited by Mark Crispin Miller and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Dopp-Stenger "confidence level" election auditing calculation method, which requires larger manual audit of voter verified paper ballots in closer races, was used in the Cuyahoga County Ohio Collaborative Election Audit. Her work has been instrumental in putting election auditing to check machine vote counts on the table.

Dopp has been a featured speaker on election integrity issues at the Houston Election Assistance Commission, an Oakland Teach-in, the Nashville Election Reform Conference, and at gatherings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cold Springs, New York; Woodstock, New York; Colorado Springs, CO; Boulder, CO, and spoke at the Green Party Convention in Phoenix, AZ, and attended several National Association of State Election Directors' and National Association of Secretaries of State Conferences.

Dopp is a long-time activist who co-authored an informational material on the Vietnam War during the 1970's, and in 1981 discovered a four-dimensional framework for categorizing information to conserve the environment while meeting human needs that she presented at the 1981 Eastern Colleges Science Conference. Dopp is definitely a "Green", having drafted her own passive solar home, keeping her lawn full of natural flora and 6" high to avoid watering, and recycling.

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