Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley
Position:
Not Clearly Pro or Con
to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:
"Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics argue that paperless electronic voting systems are vulnerable to fraud."
"Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election," Review of Economics and Statistics, Feb. 2006
Experts
Election officials, people with post-graduate degrees in a computer or political science, JD's, Members of Congress, or elected officials with significant involvement in, or related to, electronic voting machine issues.
Involvement and Affiliations:
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Director, Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Editor, American Economic Review, 2002-2005
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
John Bates Clark Prize, American Economic Association, 1995
Douglas Purvis Prize for an article or book on Economics and Public Policy in Canada, 1994
Editor, Econometrica 1993-1997
Associate Editor, Journal of Labor Economics, 1988-1992
Cowritten with E. Moretti, PhD, "Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election," Review of Economics and Statistics, Feb. 2006
