Information about the Verified Voting Foundation
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
Information about the Verified Voting Foundation:
Mission and Team
The Verified Voting Foundation and VerifiedVoting.org champion transparent, reliable, and publicly verifiable elections in the United States. The purpose of the website is threefold:
To inform the public of the problems with relying on electronic voting machines to record and count our votes, without the backup of a voter-verifiable audit trail.
To point to reasonable solutions that are within reach.
To provide a list of actions voters can take, and to encourage them to act on their own behalf to ensure that all their votes count accurately in future elections.
The core Verified Voting team consists of the following people:
David L. Dill, Founder and Board Director
Will Doherty, Executive Director
Robert Kibrick, Legislative Analyst
Pamela Smith, Nationwide Coordinator
Team Biographies
David L. Dill founded the organization and set the tone, which is objective, well-researched, and non-partisan. He provides academic expertise on the subject of voting machines and computer science and is primary public spokesman for the group.
He is a Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1987. He has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979), and an M.S and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1982 and 1987).
His primary research interests relate to the theory and application of formal verification techniques to system designs, including hardware, protocols, and software. He has also done research in asynchronous circuit verification and synthesis, and in verification methods for hard real-time systems. He was the Chair of the Computer-Aided Verification Conference held at Stanford University in 1994. From July 1995 to September 1996, he was the Chief Scientist at 0-In Design Automation.
Prof. Dill's Ph.D. thesis, "Trace Theory for Automatic Hierarchical Verification of Speed Independent Circuits" was named as a Distinguished Dissertation by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and published as such by M.I.T. Press in 1988. He was the recipient of an Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1988, and a Young Investigator award from the Office of Naval Research in 1991. He has received Best Paper awards at International Conference on Computer Design in 1991 and the Design Automation Conference in 1993 and 1998. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 for his contributions to verification of circuits and systems.
Since becoming involved in the electronic voting controversy, Prof. Dill has served on the California Secretary of State's Ad Hoc Task Force on Touch-Screen Voting and currently serves on the IEEE P1583 Committee and Santa Clara County's Citizen's DRE Oversight Board. In December of 2003, Prof. Dill was one of a select group of presenters at the Symposium on Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Will Doherty is the Executive Director of the Verified Voting Foundation and VerifiedVoting.org.
Doherty previously held a position as Media Relations Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
He founded the Online Policy Group (OPG), a free speech Internet Service Provider (ISP) that initiated a lawsuit against election systems manufacturer Diebold Systems, Inc., to prevent the company's attempt to stifle discussion of an email archive demonstrating flaws with Diebold election equipment and potential problems with use of uncertified portions of Diebold election machines in actual elections.
Doherty has twenty years of experience in for-profit and nonprofit management, consulting, and activism. He served as Globalization Operations Manager at Sybase, Inc., Localization Program Manager and Technical Writer for Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Director of Online Community Development at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He has designed and implemented Internet strategies and websites for dozens of nonprofit community and advocacy organizations. Doherty holds an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University and a B.S. in Computer Science and Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Robert Kibrick, Legislative Analyst, researches current events, official meeting transcripts, and election regulations and procedures and prepares rebuttals to propound the positions of the Verified Voting Foundation and VerifiedVoting.org. He is also working to build relationships with other organizations, including university groups and organizations promoting electoral reform and integrity. He is helping others to organize public forums on electronic voting and will help with efforts to establish local chapters of the Verified Voting Foundation and VerifiedVoting.org.
Mr. Kibrick is a research astronomer at the University of California Observatories / Lick Observatory, where he has worked since 1976. For the last 6 years, he has served as its Director of Scientific Computing and is currently responsible for overseeing the development of computer software and hardware for scientific instrumentation and control systems employed in the Observatory's astronomy research programs.
From March 1998 through 2003, he served on a national advisory council of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID). Mr. Kibrick has a B.A. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California and is the principal inventor for three U.S. patents involving optical position encoding systems and bar code technology. He has also served on a voting systems review panel for the City of Santa Cruz, California.
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