The CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project was established by Caltech president David Baltimore and MIT president Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Specific tasks of the project include evaluating the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems; establishing uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance and reliability of voting systems; and proposing specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems.