Competition Timeline
Phase 0: Judges announced, applications accepted, rules detailed
September - October
- Teams submit proposals with list of participants and any initial sponsors.
- Pre-qualification judging round and rule details announced.
Phase 1: Teams post designs
January
- Teams post online the design architecture and detailed election rules/procedures of the system they will implement for critique by other teams and study by judges.
Phase 2: Teams run on-campus elections
No later than May
- Teams run elections (preferably student government but alternate acceptable).
- Deadline for submitting papers to finals is midnight June 30, 2007.
- Anyone may submit papers, even if they are not team competitors
Phase 3: Finals
July 16-18, 2007
Teams selected for the finals will be provided funding for travel and lodging.
- Mock election run for judging by each team at the physical event.
- Academic-style presentations by each team in front of judges.
- Optional presentations of critical evaluations of competing systems (with response by team being critiqued) in front of judges.
- Optional presentations on metrics for evaluating voting systems.
- Invited talks.