Last updated on:
2/28/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
David Mertz, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Open Voting Consortium
- Position:
- Con to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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“There are several areas of concern regarding the new generation of computerized voting machines, including no means for the voter to verify that his/her votes have been tallied; no means outside of the memories of the voting machines themselves to audit or recount the votes; lack of ability to audit the quality of the software…; [and] vulnerability of the machines or of their supporting infrastructures to intentional attack or inadvertent errors.”
“A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot,” paper presented at USENIX 2005 professional conference, Apr. 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Open Voting Consortium
- Software Consultant/Developer, Gnosis Software, 1999-present
- Member, Electronic Voting Machine Project (EVM2003)
- Graduate School Fellowship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1989-1990
- Puryear Fellowship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988-1989
- Education:
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- PhD, Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1999
- MA, Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991
- BA, Philosophy with Minor in Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1987
- Other:
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