Who's Who in Election Technology

Election Technology Library

This is intended to be a comprehensive list of election technology professionals and those related to election technology. The Election Technology Library is a work in progress. Know someone or something who's missing? Contact us.

Name	Title	Organization (only)	Area of Expertise	Notes	Contact
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Kim Alexander	President and Founder	California Voter Foundation		Kim Alexander is president and founder of the California Voter...more	via web-form
Michael Alvarez	Co-director	Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project		Professor of Political Science, Caltech University	site
Stephen Ansolabehere	Professor of Political Science	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	elections, democracy, mass media	member, Caltech\MIT Voting Technology Project
Dr. Andrew Appel	Professor of Computer Science	Princeton University	computer science		site
Matt Bishop	Professor	University of California at Davis, Department of Computer Science	Computer security		site
Matt Blaze	Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science	University of Pennsylvania	Secure Systems and Cryptology, Trust Management, Technology and Public Policy		site
Secretary Debra Bowen	Secretary of State	California			site
Kim Brace	President	Election Data Services	election administration, election statistics, redistricting		email
Doug Chapin	Director	Electionline.org	election administration,election policy
Dr. David Chaum		NA	Cryptography, electronic cash transactions	Introduced the crpytographic concept of blind signatures.	chaum.com
Lillie Coney	Associate Director	Electronic Privacy Information Center	nanotechnology, surveillance, children's privacy...more		site
Dr. Lorrie Cranor	Associate Research Professor	School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University	online privacy, electronic security and usability	Dr. Cranor co-edited the book Security and Usability (O'Reilly	lorrie.cranor.org
Donetta Davidson	Chairman	US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)	election administration, voting technology implementation	Formerly Colorado's secretary of state
Dr. David Dill	Founder	VerifiedVoting.org	Computer science	Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University	site
Jim Dixon	VP, Government Affairs	American Association of People with Disabilities	accessibility
Ed Felten	Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs	Princeton University	computer security, electronic privacy, technology law and policy	Director, Center for Information Technology Policy	site
Edward (Ned) Foley	Director of Election Law at Moritz College of Law	Ohio State University	election law, campaign finance, 527 organizations...more		site
Joseph Lorenzo Hall	PhD Student	University of California, Berkeley
Thad Hall	Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science	University of Utah	election administration, voting technology implementation	Member, Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project	site
Bev Harris	Founder and Director	BlackBoxVoting.org
Richard Hasen	William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Chair	Loyola University	election law		site
Paul Herrnson	Director	Center for American Politics and Citizenship	voting technology, ballot design	Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the...more
Steven Hertzberg	Project Director	Election Science Institute		Bio
Gracia Hillman	Commissioner	US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)	voting rights, nonprofit management, public policy and program development	Served as Executive Director of the League of Women Voters
Harry Hochheiser	Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences	Towson University	usability, computer-human interaction
S. Candice Hoke	Associate Professor of Law	Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, CSU	election law		site
Rush Holt	Congressman (D, NJ-12)	US House of Representatives		Introduced the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act" (H.R.550)	holt.house.gov
Harri Hursti	Independent computer security consultant	NA	computer security	Consulted with Black Box Voting to demonstrate security vulnerability of...more
David Jefferson	Computer Scientist	The Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC)	election security, electronic voting	Chair, California Secretary of State's Voting Systems Technical Assessment and...more	site
Douglas Jones	Associate Professor of Computer Science	University of Iowa	computer science, computer security		cs.uiowa.edu/~jones
R. Doug Lewis	Director	Election Center	election administration		contact
Ray Martinez III	Commissioner (former)	US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)		Served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs...more
Kay Maxwell	President (former)	League of Women Voters	pyblic administration, voting rights
Dr. Rebecca Mercuri	President	Notable Software, Inc.	interactive systems, microprocessor applications, computer security and forensics		site
Lawrence D. Norden	Counsel	Brennan Center for Justice	voting technology		site
Whitney Quesenbery	Usability Specialist	Whitney Interactive Design	Usability		site
Dr. Ron Rivest	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	cryptography	Member of the EAC's Technical Guildines Development Committee member, Caltech\MIT...more
Marc Rotenberg	Founder and Director	Electronic Privacy Information Center	privacy issues
Avi Rubin	Director	A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE)	Computer security	Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University	avirubin.com
Roy Saltman	Independent Researcher	NA	voting systems, audits and accuracy, voting history	Author of The History and Politics of Voting Technology....more
Bruce Schneier		NA	cryptography, computer security
Dr. Ted Selker	Co-Director	Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project	ballot design, election technology	Dr. Selker is co-director of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project...more	site
Hratch Semerjian	Chief Scientist	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	technology,standards	Dr. Semerjian served as both acting NIST director (November 2004...more
Dr. Michael Shamos Ph.D., J.D.	Professor, School of Computer Science	Carnegie Mellon University	computer security, electronic voting, digital libraries...more		site
Dr. Barbara Simons	President (former)	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)		Was President of ACM from July 1998 until June 2000.
Warren D. Smith	Co-founder	RangeVoting.org	election methods		site
DeForest Soaries Jr.	Chairman (former)	US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)	election administration	Former New Jersey Secretary of State
Charles Stewart III	Professor	Massachusetts Institute of Technology<	American politics, political institutions, elections	member, Caltech\MIT Voting Technology Project	site
Warren Stewart	Policy Director	VoteTrustUSA	Advocacy		site
Daniel Tokaji	Associate Director of Election Law at Moritz College of Law	Ohio State University	election law, voting rights, voting technology law...more	Author of the blog, Equal Vote	site
Dr. David Wagner	Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science	University of California, Berkeley	software security, electronic voting, wireless security	Member of ACCURATE	site
Dr. Dan Wallach	Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science	Rice University	computer security, electronic voting	Associate Director of ACCURATE	site
Tom Wilkey	Executive Director	US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
Dr. Britain (Brit) Williams	Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Information Systems	Center for Election Systems	election administration	Member EAC TGDC, Representing National Association of State Election Directors...more	contact
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