Ted Selker PhD - Voting Machines

Name:	Ted Selker, PhD
Title:	Director of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Voting Technology Project
Position:	Pro to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:	"Numerous pieces of evidence suggest that electronic voting machines outperformed all other methods used in November's [2004] election." "Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is an End-to-End Procedure," Science, 2005
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:	Director from MIT of Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-present Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Computer Science Policy Leader award for work on voting technology, Scientific American magazine, 2004 Director, User Systems Ergonomics Research Lab, IBM Almaden Research Center, 1992-1999 Helped create the IBM ThinkPad laptop computer Member of several professional societies including American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee on Voting Standards, and Industrial Designers Society Association of America (IDSAA) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM, 1997 & 1999 IBM Fellow, 1996-1999
Education:	PhD, Computer Science, City University of New York, 1992 MS, Computer/Information Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1981 BS, Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1979
Contact Info:	Phone: Privacy Requested Fax: 617-258-6264 E-Mail: selker@media.mit.edu Website: http://web.media.mit.edu/~selker/
Select Publications:	"Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is An End-To-End Procedure," Science, 2005 "Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT," Ted Selker and Jon Goler, a report of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Apr. 2004 "Fixing the Vote - What Electronic Ballots Can Do For Democracy," Scientific American, 2004
Other:	None found
Also Quoted in:	1. Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? 2. Should electronic voting machines have voter verified paper audit trails? 3. Do electronic voting machines store votes securely?