Michael I. Shamos PhD, JD - Voting Machines

Name:	Michael I. Shamos, PhD, JD
Title:	Distinguished Career Professor at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Position:	Pro to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:	"Electronic voting can be made reliable with a thorough combination of design, manufacture, certification, testing and rigorous administrative and security controls. The systems must be used properly according to stated protocols. If this is done, then electronic systems are far more secure than any systems that employ physical ballots." Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 2004
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	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:	Distinguished Career Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Consultant on electronic voting systems to Pennsylvania Secretary of Commonwealth, 2004-present Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Privacy Technology, 2003-present Nevada Secretary of State, 1996 Delaware Legislature, 1989 Statutory of Examiner of electronic voting, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (examined over 100 different electronic voting systems), 1980-1996 9 testimonies regarding electronic voting systems before government entities, including U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Committee on Civil Rights, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland Distinguished Lecturer in Computer Science: McGill University, 1979), University of Rochester, 1978 Fellow, Society of Sigma Xi, 1974-1983 IBM Fellowship, Yale University, 1974-1975
Education:	JD, Duquesne University, 1981 PhD, Computer Science, Yale University, 1978
Contact Info:	Phone: 412-268-8193 Fax: 412-268-6298 E-Mail: shamos@cs.cmu.edu Website: University Profile
Select Publications:	Author of 17 books or chapters in books and 26 peer-reviewed journal publications, including: "Evaluation of Voting Systems," Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) 47(11): 144, 2004 "Paper v. Electronic Voting Records - An Assessment," Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Apr. 2004 "Electronic Voting - Evaluating the Threat," Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, 1993
Other:	None found
Also Quoted in:	1. Could electronic voting machine software be programmed to alter the outcome of an election? 2. Do poll workers receive adequate training to facilitate elections conducted on electronic voting machines? 3. Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? 4. Do electronic voting machines store votes securely? 5. What are the stages of testing electronic voting machines? 6. Is parallel testing an effective method of assuring the accuracy of electronic voting machines? 7. Do voter verified paper audit trails increase the likelihood of an electronic voting machine malfunctioning? 8. Do voter verified paper audit trails disenfranchise disabled voters and language minorities? 9. Should electronic voting machines have voter verified paper audit trails? 10. Do electronic voting machines accurately capture voter intent? 11. Are electronic voting machines mechanically reliable? 12. Should source code for electronic voting machines be publicly available? 13. Are electronic voting machines more susceptible to fraud than other types of voting machines? 14. Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking?